16,520 CHF
Henry Capt, Genève, No. 676, case no. 2894, circa 1820. Very fine and rare, 18K gold, quarter repeating musical watch with music playing on the hour or at will. Three-body, Empire, engine-turned with ribbed band. Hinged gilt brass cuvette. Gold, champlevé, matte Arabic chapter ring, outer minute track, engine-turned center. Blued steel “Breguet” hands. 51 mm, gilt brass full plate two-train movement with cylindrical pillars, cylinder escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring, small gilt brass bridge cock, repeating on gongs by depressing the pendant. Musical train with pin-barrel and six stacked steel teeth. Signed on the gilt brass dust rim, numbered on the pillar plate, case punched with casemaker’s mark FM. Diam. 58 mm. To be sold without reserve Notes This lot was sold by Antiquorum, on April 24, 2004, lot 334.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-04-02
