Important Watches, Wristwatches and C...
Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 10, 1994
LOT 365
Henry Capt, Genève, circa 1815. Very fine and rare 18 ct. gold quarter repeating musical watch with an automaton scene.
CHF 38,000 - 45,000
C. Double body, Empire, polished with reeded band. Gilt brass cuvette. D. Small eccentric white enamel with Breguet numerals. Blued steel "spade" hands. The dial plate with a fine enamel painted landscape with a ruined castle and a water-mill on the right side (slightly restored on the border), the foreground applied with a varycolour gold chased automaton scene depicting two men and a maiden sitting around a table, men are drinking wine while the maiden plays the mandoline. Driven by the musical train, the man on the left moves his arm, while the other feels the glasses and the maiden lifts her hand. M. Gilt brass full plate double train movement with cylindrical pillars, fusee with chain, cylinder escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring, small gilt brass English type cock with jewelled coqueret, the foot countersunk on an applied gilt brass plate engraved with scrolls of foliage. Repeating on gongs by depressing the pendant. Musical train with pinbarrel and six stacked steel blades. Signed on the gilt brass dust rim. In good condition. Diam. 59 mm.
