Two-body, polished, inclined bezel, hooded lugs, decagonal crown, screw-down back embossed with the Constellation logo. Champagne with applied gold/black baton indexes, inner minute/ seconds divisions, applied 18K yellow gold Omega symbol and 18K yellow gold star at 6. Yellow gold luminous dauphine hands. Cal. 561, copper-colored, 24 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions and temperatures, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator.
Grading System: AAA
CHF 4,000 - 6,000
USD 4,000 - 6,000
HKD 32,000 - 48,000
Sold: CHF 6,875
Grading System: AA
CHF 1,000 - 2,000
USD 1,000 - 2,000
HKD 8,000 - 16,000
Sold: CHF 1,500
Grading System: AA
CHF 1,500 - 2,500
USD 1,500 - 2,500
HKD 12,000 - 20,000
Grading System: AA
CHF 2,000 - 4,000
USD 2,000 - 4,000
HKD 16,000 - 32,000
Sold: CHF 4,125
Three-body, polished and frosted, notched and stepped bezel, band with Imperial columns, sapphire crystals. Blue with engine-turning, outer ring with Roman numerals, exposed mainspring at 1 and tourbillon carriage at 6. Skeltonized white gold epee hands. Cal. DW 8002, , 24 jewels, lateral lever escapement with one-minute tourbillon regulator with 3-arm polished steel carriage, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, index regulator.
Grading System: AAA
CHF 50,000 - 60,000
USD 51,000 - 61,000
HKD 400,000 - 480,000
Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, transparent snap-on case back, concave bezel and lugs, sapphire crystal. Matte silver with applied pink gold Arabic numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds dial at 9. Pink gold feuille hands. Cal. 95290, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 54 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band.
Grading System: AAA
CHF 20,000 - 30,000
USD 20,000 - 30,000
HKD 160,000 - 240,000
Sold: CHF 25,000
Two-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel, triangular lapidated lugs, correctors on the band, transparent case back with 4 screws, sapphire crystals. Matte black with applied pink gold large Arabic numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary ring dials for the days of the month, the months with inner leap-year indication and days of the week, aperture for the moon phases with lunar calendar on the edge. Pink gold dauphine hands. Cal. 3170-878, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes and oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 44 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator.
Grading System: AAA
CHF 12,000 - 18,000
USD 12,000 - 18,000
HKD 96,000 - 145,000
Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, rounded bezel, transparent case back with 6 screws, sapphire crystals. Matte solid silver, subsidiary off-center hour dial with pivoting dial segment, black painted Roman numerals, large central minute dial with outer minute divisions with red 15-minute markers, aperture for the visible tourbillon regulator at 7. Blued steel alpha hands Cal. L 072.1, fausses cotes decoration, 31 jewels including 3 in screw-mounted gold chatons, power equalization with chain and fusée maintaining power and stepped planetary gearing, tourbillon cage, lateral lever escapement with one-minute tourbillon regulator with equidistant polished steel three-arm carriage, Glucydur balance with screws adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, hand engraved balance bridge.
Grading System:
CHF 130,000 - 180,000
USD 132,000 - 183,000
HKD 1,050,000 - 1,500,000
Sold: CHF 149,000
Three-body, "consular", polished, maker's mark "MRM", swivel pendant. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer dot minute markers and Arabic five minute numerals, large subsidiary seconds. Blued steel "Spade" hands, the minute hand secured by a screw. 60 mm., frosted gilt full plate, ringed cylindrical pillars, 10 holes jeweled with screwed chatons, fusee with chain, Harrison's maintaining power, Arnold spring detent escapement with large steel escape wheel, steel and brass "O-Z" balance with meantime adjustment screws and temperature adjustment nuts, free-sprung blued steel helical balance spring with terminal curves, diamond endstone, pierced and engraved single footed clock.
Grading System:
CHF 25,000 - 45,000
USD 25,000 - 45,000
HKD 200,000 - 360,000
OUTER: two-body, polished. INNER: two-body, "bassine", polished. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Gold "heart and poker" hands. 42 mm. secured by screws, gilt full-plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain with Harrison's maintaining power, Earnshaw spring detent escapement, escape wheel jeweled with endstones in screwed chatons, Earnshaw's "Z" bimetallic compensation balance with sliding timing weights and two steel mean time screws, single-footed clock with endstone in screwed chaton, free-sprung blued steel helical balance-spring.
Grading System: AA
CHF 3,000 - 6,000
USD 3,000 - 6,000
HKD 24,000 - 48,000
Sold: CHF 7,250
TO BE SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE
Two-body, leather with folding cover and foldable stand, two gilt revolving cases for the clock and barometer, winding crown to wind the pocket watch, for the thermometer for revolving inner bezel, the thermometer between on a white plate with black painted scale. Silver with Arabic numerals, outer minute track. Luminous blued steel spade hands. Barometer: Cream painted with black barometric scale. Blued steel arrow pointer. Gilt, 17 jewels, straightline lever escapement, monometallic balance, flat balance spring, index regulator.Grading System: AA
CHF 1,000 - 2,000
USD 1,000 - 2,000
HKD 8,000 - 16,000
Sold: CHF 688
Rectangular, clock at the top, back with sliding panel revealing the movement, extended forward base with two gilt bronze lions, between them a rectangular cutout showing the Reaumur thermometer display, gilt bun feet. Silvered chapter ring with inlaid radial Roman numerals,matte gilt center winch engraved ''Janvier au Louvre No 321," blue steel Breguet hands. White enamel small subsidiary dial at the top for the day of the week and date,blue steel Breguet hands. Thermometer dial :matt gilt rectangular plate with 2 applied silvered sectors for two Reaumur scale from -10 to 30, on the side engraved "Composé par Janvier.'' Blue steel index hand. Circular 105 mm. brass, four circular pillars, going barrel, anchor escapement, brass bob pendulum with steel rod, silk suspension. Réaumur thermometer: bimetallic steel and brass lever acting on a pivoted steel lever to which the hand is fixed. Signed on dial and movement. Illustrated in: Michel Hayard:'' Antide Janvier 1751-1835'' page 208. ANTIDE JANVIER (1751-1835) Janvier was born on 1 July 1751 at Briva, a hamlet in the commune of Lavans, near Saint Claude. His father, Claude Etienne Janvier, at first a farm labourer, had abandoned the plough to take up clockmaking. When he noticed the exceptional ability of his son in his own new trade, he did his utmost to have him carefully taught by a certain Abbé Tournier, inventor of a method for calculating gears. Antide Janvier became interested in mechanical matters and astronomy at an early age; remarkably precocious, he may be considered as the most extraordinary, and the most learned, of French clockmakers. At the age of 15, he had already made a globe, which represented mechanically the movements of the heavenly bodies. He presented it to the Academy des Arts et Belles-Lettres de Besançon, which, during an extraordinary session dedicated to him, decreed: "The Sieur Antide Janvier, of Saint Claude, having presented to the Academy a globe on which he has executed in movement a system of astron my, this Company believes that it cannot give too much praise and encouragement to a young man of seventeen, whose industriousness would honour a confirmed mechanical expert; it regards it as an act of justice to confer this present certificate upon him. Given at the Palais de Granvelle, in Besançon, on 24 May 1768. Signed: Droz, permanent secretary. Such an exceptional achievement was soon known throughout the city, and the inhabitants were so enthusiastic, that there was no question of Janvier's leaving. So he established himself in Besançon, where he restored the table clock of Cardinal Granvelle, made in Augsburg in 1564. Returning to Saint Claude in 1771, he visited Morez frequently, dividing his activities between these two cities, as an official Memoir for Year IX of the Republic indicates: "A celebrated artist, the Citizen Janvier senior, having established himself in Morez, corrected the methods, made known the right principles, and taught how to join elegance to sturdiness in the work (of clockmaking)". A moving astronomical globe, in gilded wood, now in the Besançon Museum, bearing the inscription: "Exécutée à Saint Claude, par Antide Janvier fils en 1771 A Et. 20 (Made in Saint Claude, by Antide Janvier son, in 1771 A Et. 20) [the 20th year of his age], bears witness to his activities in Saint Claude, as does the planetary clock of the Gélis collection, now in the Paul Dupuy Museum in Toulouse, signed: Janvier fils à Saint Claude fecit l'an 1773. (Janvier jr at Saint Claude made this in the year 1773). In 1773, a Memoir of the famous astronomer Lalande, read at the Academy of Science, announced that on 18 October a comet would pass near the earth. Janvier seized this opportunity to obtain from his father's permission to go to Paris for that day. During this journey he had the honour of presenting one of his moving globes to King Louis XV. On 10 May 1775, on his return to Besançon, he presented to the Academy two new globes "most ingenious and very well made".
Grading System: AAA
CHF 30,000 - 50,000
USD 30,000 - 51,000
HKD 240,000 - 400,000
Sold: CHF 40,000
Two-body, "Directoire," hinged, the back with a finely painted on enamel scene depicting a couple by a fountain set with rose-cut diamonds, royal blue translucent enamel background over engine-turning, bezel decorated with white and blue enamel triangles and paillons Off-white enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, outermost Arabic 5-minute markers. Gold cathedral hands. Gilt brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring, gilt brass continental clock, polished steel end-piece.
Grading System: A
CHF 3,000 - 5,000
USD 3,000 - 5,000
HKD 24,000 - 40,000
Sold: CHF 3,750
Two-body, Louis XV, the back finely decorated with painted on enamel and champlevé flowers and foliage on a hatched chased ground, the bezel decorated en suite. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and Arabic five-minute numerals, winding aperture between 3 and 4 o'clock. Gold "Louis" hands. 35 mm. hinged, frosted gilt full-plate with turned pillars, fusee and chain, cylinder escapement, three-arm steel balance with flat balance spring, pierced and chased balance clock with diamond endstone, silvered regulation dial. Movement signed.
Grading System: A
CHF 4,000 - 6,000
USD 4,000 - 6,000
HKD 32,000 - 48,000
Four-body, "bassine", with fixed back, decorated with turquoises,ruby and applied varicolored gold foliage and flowers forming a large rosette, band with applied floral pattern, front bezel en suite with turquoises and applied flowers. Silver with black radial Roman numerals, outer minute track. Blue steel Breguet hands. 40 mm., matte gilt, standing barrel, cylinder escapement, three-arm balance blued steel flat balance spring, repeating on two gongs with two polished steel hammers activated by depressing the pendant. Cuvette signed.
Grading System: A
CHF 3,000 - 5,000
USD 3,000 - 5,000
HKD 24,000 - 40,000
Sold: CHF 3,750
Four-body, massive, "pomme et filets", by JW, (master marks), polished, the front cover with a fine painted on enamel portrait of a horse rider within a horse-shoe set with rose-cut diamonds spring loaded front cover, the back applied with a diamond-set monogram with the letters, protected hand-setting button, thief- proof swivel bow. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel by Willis, i radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel spade hands. 20''', frosted gilt, 3/4-plate, 75 jewels, twotrain with differential winding beneath the dial, jewelled to the third wheel with screwed gold chatons, lateral counterpoised lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with gold temperature adjustment screws, double-over-coiled blued steel Breguet balance spring, diamond endstone, index regulator, striking on gongs and repeating activated by a trip-slide on the band, Silent/Strike and Quarters/ Full Strike selection levers on the edge of the bezel.
Grading System:
CHF 9,000 - 14,000
USD 9,000 - 14,000
HKD 72,000 - 112,000
Sold: CHF 35,000
Four-body, "bassine", polished,hinged gold cuvette. Small opalescent enamel with radial black enamel Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds, flanked by polychrome painted on enamel figures of a flower girl and minstrel below cherubs holding bells, repeating hours, quarters, and minutes on bells, sheet music and birds below, the whole on a polished gilt plate. Blue steel spade hands. Cal. 21```, matte gilt, 17 jewels, counterpoised straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance-spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band.
Grading System: AA
CHF 7,000 - 9,000
USD 7,000 - 9,000
HKD 56,000 - 72,000
Four-body,"bassine", polished. Hinged gold cuvette engraved with the technical details. Guilloché silver with painted Cubiste numerals on a plain outer reserve, outer minute track, sunk guilloché subsidiary seconds dial. Pink gold hands. Cal. 18```, gilt brass, fausses côtes decoration, 27 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Case and cuvette signed.
Grading System: A
CHF 1,500 - 2,500
USD 1,500 - 2,500
HKD 12,000 - 20,000
Five-body, "demi-bassine", solid and heavy, polished mastermark P.D. Hinged gold cuvette with engraved dedication ''ce Chronometer de bord No22311 construit par Paul Ditisheim la Chaux de Fonds a obtenu en premiere classe le premier prix de l'etat a l'observatoire astronomique de Neuchatelle''. Over hinged glazed gold bezel for viewing the movement. Matte silver with champlevé radial Roman numerals and outer minute track, subsidiary dial, subsidiary seconds, engraved in red « Grand Prix Paris 1900 ». Blued steel fleur-de-lis hands. 50 mm., 22''', "Extra", rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 18 jewels, one-minute tourbillon, three equidistant arm polished steel cage and bridge, tourbillon with pivoted detent escapement, Guillaume cut anibal-brass compensation balance with winged arms, adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and five positions, 18 gold peripheral temperature adjustment screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator.
Grading System:
CHF 45,000 - 65,000
USD 46,000 - 66,000
HKD 360,000 - 530,000
Sold: CHF 125,000
Three piece mahogany deck watch type, the brass bowl with screwed bezel. Silver regulator type with small Roman eccentric chapter for hours, outer Arabic minute ring on the border and subsidiary seconds. Blued steel hands. Gilt brass full plate with conical pillars secured by nuts with polished steel washers, fusee with chain and «maintaining power, typical Louis Berthoud's pivoted detent escapement, cut bimetallic three-arm compensation balance with four brass weights and timing screws typical of Berthoud's work. Free sprung blued steel helical balance spring.
Grading System:
CHF 45,000 - 65,000
USD 46,000 - 66,000
HKD 360,000 - 530,000
Sold: CHF 185,000