Important Watches and Wristwatches
Hong Kong, Hotel Furama Kempinski, May 27, 1990
LOT 120
Lemaindre, Blois, circa 1640.
HKD 110,000 - 130,000
CHF 20,000 - 25,000
Sold: HKD 322,000
Rare and fine silver pendant watch. "Godronné bassine" double body case. Engraved silver dial plate with gilt brass chapter ring with Roman numerals. "Lys" gilt brass hand. GiIt brass full plate movement with turned baluster pillars, fusée with a gut-line, verge escapement with a plain two armed steel balance wheel foliot, a five leaf pinion on the contrate wheel and a screwed early single foot silver cock pierced and engraved with flowers.
Notes
This watch is illustrated on the cover page of Tardy
? "Les Coqs de Montres".