75,000 CHF
PIGUET & MEYLAN - MUSICAL GOLD, ENAMEL AND PEARL QUARTER REPEATING WATCH Piguet & Meylan, Geneva, No. 1121, the enamel attributed to Jean-Louis Richter, Geneva. Made circa 1820. Extremely fine and very rare, large, two-train, musical and quarter-repeating, 18K gold, champleve and painted on enamel pearl-set pocket watch with sur-plateau musical movement playing on the hour or at will. Four-body, "Empire", master mark 'IL', polished, pearl-set bezel, the band decorated with blue, red and white champleve enamel, the back with a very finely painted on enamel scene of a young couple with their spaniel under a tree by an Alpine lakeside with cattle and sheep in the foreground, pearl-set border, bolt at 1 o'clock to lock the repeat and at 8 to activate the music. Hinged gilt brass cuvette with apertures for winding and hand-setting, Silence/Musique lever protruding at the edge. Gold, engine-turned and engraved, Arabic numerals on circular white enamel reserves, outer minute divisions on a white enamel chapter ring, engine-turned center. Gold heart hands. 52 mm.(22'''), gilt brass two-train, with standing barrel for the going train, cylinder escapement, plain three-arm gold balance, flat balance spring, polished steel endplate, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by depressing the pendant. Sur plateau musical movement, 23 tuned, blued steel vibrating blades acting on both sides of the pinned disc, music/silence lever at the edge of the cuvette beneath the back Read more…
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2013-11-10
