The Sandberg Watch Collection

Hotel Richemond, Geneva, Mar 31, 2001

LOT 91

The ConductorReuge, Ste. Croix, Switzerland, retailed by H.L. Hall & Co., hallmarked London, 1884.Very fine and rare 18 ct. gold, keyless, double-train two-tune musical automaton watch with centre seconds, date and day of the week, made for the Indian market.

C. Four-body, solid, 'bassine et filets', polished, gold hinged cuvette. D. White enamel, Roman chapters, gold paillon dot outer minute divisions, outer fifth of second divisions, Arabic five minute and second numerals, aperture at 6 o'clock for the maestro who conducts the music, subsidiary dials for days of the week at 10 o'clock and for days of the month at 2 o'clock. Blued-steel 'spade' hands. M. 21''', matte and gilt, 15 jewels, lateral lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance,Breguet balance spring, pinned cylinder and 34-tooth comb musical movement playing 'Roga nob Rang' and 'La fille de Madame Angot', endless screw 'silent' worm regulator with two-armed fly and endstone, lever at 2 o'clock for the change of tune and 9 o'clock for starting the music, hands pin-set.Signed on the movement.Diam. 58 mm. Published in the Sandberg book, page 352-353.