Only Online Auction
Geneva, Dec 08, 2022
LOT 173
CHF 7,000 - 14,000
EUR 7,200 - 14,300 / USD 7,500 - 14,900 / HKD 58,000 - 116,000
Sold: CHF 16,250
The back engraved with a small rosette, the band pierced and engraved with flowers and foliage and four anchors, tulip pendant with loose ring.
Gilt dial, floral and mask engraving outside the applied Roman chapter ring with quarter-hour divisions, centre rotating gilt alarm disc comprising four flower-engraved divisions with fleur-de-lis blued-steel pointer indicating the time. Blued-teel 'poker' hand for setting the alarm.
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: AAA |
Excellent |
Case: 3-8 |
Good Slightly scratched |
Movement: 3-6-8** |
Good Slightly oxidized Slightly scratched Repair required, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 3-01 |
Good HANDS Original |
Brand Jean Drouynot a Poitiers, France
Model Coach watch
Year Circa 1650
Material Gilt brass
Diameter 90 mm. travelling box 105 mm.
Caliber 63.6 mm, gilt brass full plate with vase pillars, fusee and chain, four-wheel train, verge escapement, plain steel three-arm balance, short balance spring, unusual continental cock with two feet, pierced and engraved with symmetrical foliage, the feet engraved with scallop shells, wheel and click set-up covered with a bridge decorated with flowers and foliage. Fixed barrel for the striking, pierced and engraved with foliage, five-wheel train, silverount wheel mounted on the bottom plate, striking with one hammer on a bell, alarm with fixed barrel and three-wheel train, striking on the same bell.
Signature Movement
Accessories Original fitted travelling box
Provenance
CONDITIONS AND INFORMATION FOR BUYERS.
The purchase price payable by a buyer will be the sum of the final bid price plus the buyer’s premium, together with any applicable sales or compensating use tax. In addition to the hammer price, the buyer’s premium is payable as follows: 26% of the hammer price on each lot.
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