1,920 CHF
Le Jongleur Didisheim Goldshmidt, Fils & Cie. , Swiss, “Le Jongleur”, No. 58247. Made circa 1920. Fine and unusual digital automaton table timepiece. To be sold without reserve Gilt bronze framed painting, silvered gallery with cast formal decoration, malachite side pieces, standing on a rectangular yellow marble base. Featuring a seated Chinese figure juggling with a playing card in one hand and an egg in the other, disclosing the apertures for the digital hours and minutes when depressing the button at the top 19’’’, brass three-quarter plate with going barrel, 2 jewels, pin pallet Roskopf escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, blued steel flat balance spring. Case and movement signed. Dim. 105 x 75 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-03-29
