Important Watches, Pocket Watches and...

Noga Hilton Hotel, Nov 13, 2005

LOT 169

?Pin-Wheel Escapement? Harsch a Berlin. Made in Neuchâtel, circa 1795. Fine and rare, ?Directoire-style? gilt bronze and white marble, eight-day going hour and half-hour striking mantel clock with pinwheel escapement and part-skeletonized movement.

C. Cast and chased matt and burnished gilt bezel, surmounted by a pierced trophy cresting of laurel leaves, a trumpet, caduceus and a cockerel, wreath of oak leaves below the dial, raised on an angular beaded framework flanked by winged sphinxes surmounted by baskets of flowers, white marble base with bead mounts, toupee feet, D. White enamel, annular, Arabic numerals and outer dot minute markers, Arabic quarter-hour numerals. Black steel hands. M. 110 mm., gilt brass, going barrels, skeletonized front plate, hour wheel and snail, pin-wheel escapement, silk suspension, sunburst pendulum, rack striking on a bell. Dial signed. Dim. 51.5 x 32 x 13 cm.