Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Mar 28, 2007

LOT 69

"Grande & Petite Sonnerie, Striking & Repeating Bells" Drocourt, No. 8741, retailed by Tiffany & Co., New York. Made circa 1890. Very fine, engraved gilt brass, grande and petite sonnerie striking and repeating, 8 day-going carriage clock with alarm, original traveling case and key. Property of an East Coast Collector

USD 4,000 - 6,000

EUR 3,000 - 4,500

Sold: USD 5,900

C. Gilt brass, "gorge", engraved with flowers and foliage, glazed sides and back door, the top glazed to view the escapement, hinged carrying handle. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and Arabic five-minute numerals, alarm dial below with Arabic numerals, flower and foliate engraved gilt mask. Blued steel "Breguet" hands. M. Gilt brass, rectangular plates, four pillars, barrels for the going, striking and alarm trains, straight-line lever escapement on a silvered platform, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, striking the hours and quarters on two bells, striking/ silence/ full strike selection lever in the base. Dial signed by the retailer, movement with Drocourt's punched mark. Dim. Height 14 cm., width 7.5 cm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3-6

Good

Slightly oxidized
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-01

Good

HANDS Original

Notes

The Drocourt firm, which made decorative carriage clocks, was founded by Pierre, who was succeeded by his son Alfred. Drocourt is recorded at 28, Rue Dubelleyme, Paris; Rue de Limoges, Paris and in Saint-Nicolas d'Aliermont. The Drocourt company won medals at all the major Paris exhibitions of the late 19th Century and a bronze medal for carriage clocks at the 1862 London exhibition.