Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Oct 23, 2011

LOT 309

HUBERT SARTON, LARGE QUARTER STRIKING COACH WATCH Hubert Sarton a Liege. Made circa 1790. Fine and rare, silver cased quarter striking and repeating coach watch with alarm. Accompanied by a key and custom-made travel case.

HKD 110,000 - 130,000

USD 14,000 - 17,000 / EUR 10,000 - 12,000

C. Two-body, pierced, polished and engraved with stylised foliate decoration, aperture for the repeat cord below 6. D. White enamel, Arabic numerals, outer star minute markers, Arabic quarter hour numerals, sonnerie/silence lever in the dial plate. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. 87 mm, frosted gilt, full plate, turned pillars, fusee with chain, spring barrels for the striking and alarm trains, polished steel hammers, verge escapement, brass three-arm balance, blued steel balance-spring, pierced and chased continental type balance cock, polished steel ?V? shaped regulator arm with index scale, striking and repeating on a bell at the quarters or upon request. Dial signed. Diam. 109 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3-9

Good

Scratched
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-71-32-01

Good

ENAMEL AND VARIOUS TYPES OF DECORATION Hairlines

Slightly restored

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.