Important Watches

Geneva, Mar 20, 2010

LOT 136

Champleve Enamel Carriage Clock Swiss. Made for the Chinese Market, circa 1890. Very fine and unusual, gilt brass and cloisonne enamel, hour and half hour striking and repeating 8-day going carriage clock with sweep centre seconds and alarm. To be sold without reserve

C. Gilt bronze, fancy cannelée, glazed top and back door, fully decorated with cloisonne flowers and birds over a Royal blue ground. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer seconds and minute divisions, small subsidiary Arabic alarm setting dial. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. Silvered brass, rectangular with going barrels for both trains, platform with lateral lever escapement, bimetallic compensation balance, blued-steel flat balance spring, index regulator, striking and repeating and alarm on a bell with button on the top, the repeating work visible on the back plate. Dim. 15 x 10.5 x 9.5 cm. excluding the handle.