Important Watches, Wristwatches and c...
Geneva, Apr 20, 1996
LOT 472
C. Allier, rue Saint Antoine No. 341, a Paris, circa 1800. Fine and unusual silver calendar watch with retrograde jumping hours.
CHF 1,300 - 1,600
C. Double body Directoire, polished. B. White enamel with semi-circular blue sector for the retrograde jumping hours with gilt Arabic numerals, outer minute ring with star divisions and subsidiary small chapter for day of the month. Gold Breguet hands. M. Hinged gilt brass full plate with square pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement, Plain gilt brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring, gilt brass continental cock with polished steel end-piece. Signed on the back plate. In very good condition. Diam. 57 mm.
