12,000 CHF
Denis Blondel quarter-repeating pocket watch Denis Blondel à Genève, No. 4095. Made for the Islamic market, circa 1830. Very fine and rare, 18K rose gold and painted on enamel, quarter-repeating pocket watch with ruby cylinder escapement, gold Breguet-type chain and gold ratchet key decorated to match the watch. Four-body, lobed with twelve segments decorated with painted on enamel flowers and trophies on a translucent opalescent ground, the segments between painted in imitaion of shagreen, the bezel decorated to match. White enamel with Islamic numerals, outer minute track. Gold Breguet hands. 19’’’, matte gilt, 8 jewels, ruby cylinder escapement, three-arm gilt balance, flat balance spring, index regulator with bimetallic temperature compensation curb, repeating with two polished steel hammers on two gongs activated by a pull-and-twist piston in the pendant. Cuvette signed. Diam. 55 mm. Notes Denis Blondel Recorded working at 27, Rue de la Cité in 1835 as a maker of complicated enamel watches for the oriental market.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2010-03-20
