Gubelin Marble & Silver Turtle Mystery Clock E

Gubelin Marble & Silver Turtle Mystery Clock E. Gübelin, Lucerne, No. 6325. Made circa 1925. Very fine and extremely rare, yellow marble, gilt-brass, silver and enamel, mystery clock with magnetic floating turtle. Octagonal moulded yellow marble base with gilt-brass mounts, solid silver turtle pool to be filled with water, decorated with translucent lilac-colored enamel over sunray guilloche. Lilac-coloured translucent guilloche enamel with applied silver-gilt radial Roman numerals, inner off-white enamel minute divisions, outer off-white enamel border. Gilt-painted turtle with concealed iron implant, floats and indicates the time without any apparent connection to the movement, the time set by an arbor concealed at the side. 9.3 cm. square, gilt brass plates, four pillars, going barrel, large circular magnet mounted on a four-arm brass wheel on the hour wheel, straight-line lever escapement on a vertically mounted platform, 13 jewels, monometallic balance, self-compensating flat balance spring, index regulator. Movement signed. Dim. 27 x 13 cm. Notes Gübelin The firm of Gübelin was founded in Lucerne, Switzerland by Mauritz Breitschmid on October 4, 1854. Under the direction of his son-in-law Jakob Eduard Gübelin the company grew and moved to larger premises at Schweizer Hofquai in 1903. Following the appointment of Jakob's son Eduard Gübelin as director in 1925, Gübelin began to make unusually high quality clocks in small numbers. The present clock is one of the high