Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Geneva, Nov 13, 2016
LOT 457
THE FLOWER GIRL & MINSTREL QUARTER REPEATER & AUTOMATON WATCH YELLOW GOLD Attributed to C. Barbezat-Baillot, Le Locle-Suisse, 'Répétition à Quart', No. 5957. Made circa 1890. Fine and rare, large, quater-repeating, 18K yellow gold hunting cased, keyless pocket watch with painted on enamel automaton jacks
CHF 7,000 - 9,000
HKD 56,000 - 72,000 / USD 7,000 - 9,000
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 | |
|---|---|
Grade: AA |
Very good |
Case: 3-8 |
Good Slightly scratched |
Movement: 3* |
Good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 3-6-01 |
Good Slightly oxidized HANDS Original |