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Hong Kong, Jun 08, 2008

LOT 17

Musical Quarter-Repeating Piguet & Meylan, Genève, No. 949, retailed by Meuron & Compe. Made circa 1820. Fine and rare, large, quarter-repeating, musical, 18K gold pocket watch playing music on the hour or at will.

HKD 45,000 - 60,000

USD 6,000 - 8,000 / EUR 3,500 - 5,000

Sold: HKD 60,000

C. Four-body, "Empire", polished, reeded band, bolt at 10 for locking the repeat, bolt at 6 for activating the music. Hinged brass cuvette. D. White enamel with Arabic numerals, outer minute track. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. 52 mm, gilt, fixed going barrels for the going and musical trains, cylinder escapement, brass three-arm balance, blued steel flat balance spring, index regulator, sur plateau musical movement with 29 tuned blued steel teeth playing on both sides of the pinned disc. Dial signed by Meuron & Compe, movement dial plate punched P&M for Piguet & Meylan and numbered 949. Diam. 57 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3**

Good

Repair required, at buyer's expense
Dial: 4-45-46-01

Fair

HANDS Original

Notes

Isaac Daniel Piguet (1775-1841) and Philippe Samuel Meylan (1772-1845) They came to Geneva as young men, and formed a partnership which lasted from 1811 to 1828. The company specialized in elaborate and beautifully decorated musical watches, including skeleton and automaton watches, and mechanical animals. The firm was established at 45, rue Jean Jacques Rousseau in Geneva. After their association came to an end, both Piguet and Meylan continued for some time to work with their sons.
Meuron & Cie. Beginning of the 19th century. Neuchâtel, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Paris, Genève. Made selfwinding watches, watches decorated with pearls and enamel, repeaters, watches with automata, equation of time, complicated watches, table clocks, cartels, and pendules d'officier.
See: "Dictionnaire des Horlogers Genevois" by Osvaldo Patrizzi, Antiquorum Editions, Geneva, 1998.