A TRIBUTE TO PRECISION AND COMPLICATE...

Hotel Nogalhilton Geneve, Nov 11, 2001

LOT 2

Timekeeper with 1 ComplicationMeyronne a Paris, circa 1690.Rare and fine silver single-hand "oignon" alarm watch.

C. Two-body, "oignon", square hinge, pierced for sound with a pattern of repeated circles. D. White enamel, Roman numerals on raised enamel cartouches, inner quarter-hour ring, center with gilt brass alarm disc with Arabic numerals with steel pointer indicating hours. Blued steel "arrow" hand. M. 45,6 mm, hinged, gilt full plate with Egyptian pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement with brass balance and short balance spring, Louis XIV cock pierced and engraved with two cupids on a see-saw wih a quiver and a torch between, blued steel crescent-shaped plate applied above the cock with a scrolling pattern, Tompion type regulator, alarm with fixed engraved barrel and steel train, striking on a bell on both sides of short oval cantilever hammer.Signed on the blued steel plate applied on the back plate.Diam. 58 mm.