Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 27, 2011

LOT 270

Pendulette de Voyage a Repetition Minutes Nocturne, Swiss, No. 2084. The case with London import marks for 1909-10. Very fine and very rare, silver, enamel and rose quartz, eight day going, minuterepeating desk clock. Accompanied by a fitted box.

C. Rectangular silver with chased torch pillars and laurel swag below the dial, the bezel decorated with white enamel, entirely decorated with two shades of translucent blue guilloche enamel, side panels centred with and engine-turned rosette, the top with sunburst engineturning, hinged back door, raised on a rose quartz base. D. Engine-turned silver with Arabic numerals, outer minute track. Blued steel hands. M. Gilt brass by Nocturne, No. 2084, rectangular with going barrel, frosted and gilt platform with straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, repeating on gongs activated by the push-piece at the top. Dim. 78 x 51.5 x 42 mm. Property of a French Collector