Important Watches, Wristwatches and C...
Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 12, 1996
LOT 553
Chartier a Blois, circa 1670. Fine silver pre-balance spring watch with alarm.
CHF 5,000 - 6,000
C. Double body, bassine with split bezel and loosering pendant, the band pierced and engraved with inhabited foliage. D. Silver champleve with Roman numerals and inner alarm setting disc. Blued steel single hand and pointer. M. Hinged gilt brass full plate with Egyptian pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement, plain brass two-arm balance without spring, irregular oval foliage pierced and engraved cock secured by a screw, worm and wheel set-up with blued steel brackets. Alarm train with gilt brass fixed barrel, pierced and engraved with foliage, striking on a bell. Signed on the back plate. In very good condition. Diam. 45 mm.
