Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Oct 04, 2009

LOT 314

Petite Sonnerie Chas. Frodsham & Co., Paris, No. 20417. Made circa 1900. Fine, small, gilt brass, 8-day going, Petite Sonnerie striking and repeating carriage clock with alarm. To be sold without reserve

C. Multi-piece, "gorge", the sides and top glazed, the base engraved ?Xmas O.K. 1903?, hinged handle. D. Circular white enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, white enamel alarm setting dial with radial Arabic numerals, matte gilt mask. Blued steel spade hands. M. Rectangular steel plates, fausses cotes decoration, brass going barrels for the going and striking trains, barrel for the alarm train, lateral lever escapement on a silvered platform, cut bimetallic compensation balance with temperature and meantime adjustment screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, striking and repeating on two gongs with two hammers, strike selection lever in the base. Dial and movement signed. Dim. 10.2 x 6 x 7 cm.