Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 11, 2012

LOT 203

AIMÉ BILLON ? GRANDE SONNERIE PENDULE PORTATIVE Aimé Billon, Swiss, retailed by Le Paute à Paris. Made in Neuchatel, circa 1820. Fine and rare, gilt bronze, Grande Sonnerie striking and repeating Pendule d'Officier 8-day traveling clock with alarm.

C. Gilt bronze, with paw feet, engine-turned bezel, the pediment with chased foliate decoration centered by a mask, the front and top with cast and chased fl owers and foliage, side panels chased with lyres, folding leaf handle at the top. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and Arabic fi fteen-minute numerals. Gilt pierced and engraved fl eur-de-lis hands, blued steel alarm hand. M. Circular gilt brass with cylindrical pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement, brass three-arm balance mounted on the backplate, fl at balance spring, index regulator, quarter striking and repeating on two bells with the striking train fi tted on the back plate, cord release for repeating at will; pull-wind alarm with separate train, Grande Sonnerie/ Silence lever in the base. Dial signed Le Paute à Paris, case signed Aimé Billon. Dim. 21.5 x 14.3 x 10.5 cm.