Importantes Montres de Collection
Geneva, Nov 13, 2011
LOT 455
TABLEAU À MUSIQUE French. Made circa 1890. Very fine, 8-day going, hour and half-hour striking musical clock painting, the music playing one of six tunes on the hour or at will.
CHF 4,000 - 6,000
USD 4,500 - 6,500 / EUR 3,300 - 5,000
Sold: CHF 5,000
C. Gilt wood framed oil on canvas, depicting a country landscape scene with fi gures and a horse and cart, church to the left, the tower with the clock. D. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track. Black steel hands. M. 8 cm square, brass with going barrels both for the going and the striking trains, anchor escapement, brass bob pendulum with silk suspension, striking the hours and halfhours on a gong with count wheel on the back plate. 23 x 10 cm musical movement, brass bed with pinned brass cylinder, playing six tunes on tuned steel teeth in a single comb on the hour or at will, brass fl y governor, pull-stops for start/ stop, tune change and continuation in the base. Dim. 96 x 66 cm. In good condition
