Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 07, 2011

LOT 1

THE WINDMILL Paris, circa 1910. Fine and very rare steel and brass clock with rotating world-time dials in the form of a windmill and lighthouse. To be sold without reserve

C. Circular base with foliage texture, windmill peaking with a fl ag, painted as red brick with rotating dials with different time zones. D. Painted khaki with black Arabic numerals. Black painted spade and lozenge hands. M. Column, brass, large going barrel, anchor escapement, spring suspension with Y-shaped arrangement connecting to the pendulum which rotates the windmill. Dim. Height 58 cm, base diameter 22 cm.