Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 13, 2012

LOT 332

MINUTE REPEATING THREE HAMMER & THREE GONG CARILLON WATCH Auguste Favre & Cie, No. 12066, the movement attributed to Louis Brandt Frères. Made circa in 1885. Very fine and extremely rare, 18K pink gold, hunting-cased keyless pocket watch with three hammer carillon minuterepeating on three gongs.

CHF 10,000 - 15,000

USD 11,000 - 16,000 / EUR 8,500 - 12,000

Sold: CHF 16,250

C. Four-body, ?bassine?, solid, polished, the front cover engraved with the coat of arms of a Baron with coronet above. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track with Arabic fi ve-minute numerals, subsidiary seconds dial. Pink gold spade hands. M. 45 mm, matte gilt, 31 jewels, straight-line counterpoised lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating with three hammers on three gongs activated by a slide on the band. Case punched AF & Ce and numbered. Diam. 54.5 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 2

Very good
Movement: 2*

Very good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 2-01

Very good

HANDS Original

Notes

Watches with carillon minute-repeating with three hammers on three gongs are very rare. A handful of Swiss makers produced them including Constant Piguet, Cèsar Racine, Zenith and Louis Brandt Frères. Each maker patented their particular design and so the present watch can be attributed to Louis Brandt Frères on the basis of another signed example with identical movement sold by Antiquorum, Geneva, April 15, 2007, lot 28. The punch mark ?A.F & Ce? is often mistaken for the mark of Audemars Frères. This watch was likely fi nished by the fi rm of Auguste Favre who won honorable mention for fi nished watches at the National Exhibition of Horology in La Chaux-de-Fonds in 1881.