Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Oct 04, 2009

LOT 113

Dumb Quarter-Repeating and Calendar (Hubert) Sarton à Liège. Made circa 1790. Fine and rare, 18K gold, quarter repeating a toc, pocket watch with calendar.

CHF 5,000 - 7,000

USD 4,700 - 6,600 / EUR 3,300 - 4,600

C. Double-body, "Lepine" with concealed hinge, polished. Gilt brass dust ring. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions and Arabic five-minute numerals, inner date ring with corresponding hand. Gold beetle and poker hour and minute hands, pierced steel calendar hand. M. 50 mm, hinged gilt brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee with chain, polished steel chain guard, verge escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring, gilt brass continental cock with polished steel endplate, silver regulation dial. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 60 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-25-01

Good

Chipped

HANDS Original

Notes

Hubert Sarton was born in Paris in 1748. Around 1772 he became a pupil of J. Le Roy. Sarton settled in Liège, where he died in 1828 at the age of 80. In 1782, he published a "Description de plusieurs pièces d'horlogerie". He made clocks with carillon, regulator escapements with compensation, clocks with decimal indications, self-winding watches, etc.