Important Watches, Wristwatches and C...

Hanae Mori Building, Dec 15, 1990

LOT 114

A. Guimac, French, circa 1780. Very fine and rare 22 ct. gold "à toc" quarter-repeating skeleton watch.

JPY 2,200,000 - 2,500,000

CHF 22,000 - 25,000

Sold: JPY 2,646,250

C. Two body, massive, Louis XVI style, bezels decorated with two colour gold foliage, concealed thumbpiece. D. Crystal glass with reverse painted white Roman numerals. Polished silver moon hands. M. Very fine, fully skeletonised engraved and gilt brass plate and back bridges supported on cylindrical columns, cylinder escapement with steel 'scape wheel, polished 3-arm steel balance, 2-arm cock with polished steel end piece. Highly polished repeating work visible through the dial. Signed on eclge of the front plate. Repeating on blocks with gold dumb-piece. In excellent condition. Diam. 43mm.


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The workmanship of this watch exhibits an extraordinary attention to detail, by an apparently unrecorded maker, to skeletonise so completly a repeating watch.