The Sandberg Watch Collection

Hotel Richemond, Geneva, Mar 31, 2001

LOT 31

Peter Nordsteen à Moscou, No. 881, circa 1785.Very fine silver, quarter repeating coach watch with alarm and date.

C. Two-body, entirely finely engraved, the back with four cartouches with masks and foliage, the centre with geometrically engraved rotating disc which covers the winding apertures, edges and bezels pierced and engraved in a geometrical pattern. D. Silver, champlevé, Roman chapter ring, outer five-minute markers engraved in cartouches with arched sides, concentric 31-day scale, at the centre alarm indication. Gold 'beetle and poker' hands, 'arrow' hand for the calendar, 'spade' hand for the alar. M. 75 mm o, hinged gilt brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, continental cockpierced and engraved in a delicate symmetrical pattern, ruby endstone, pull repeater striking on bell, alarm withfixed barrel.Signed on the back plate.Diam. 120 mm. Published in the Sandberg book, page 254-255.