Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 11, 2012

LOT 298

ANGELUS SINGING BIRD BOX DESK CLOCK GIRL ON A SWING Angelus, Swiss. Made circa 1960. Fine and unusual, gilt-metal and painted-on-enamel singing bird box with integral 8-day going alarm clock. Accompanied by a key.

C. Two-body, rectangular bombè with engraved body, bird cover painted with a scene of the ?Girl on a Swing? after Boucher, the scene continues on the top panel, square case at the back housing the clock, the border decorated with painted on enamel roses on a cream ground. D. Off-white, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track. Gilt Louis XVI hands. M. Rectangular brass, going barrel and rectangular bellows, the revolving bird with moving wings and beak, controlled by two cams mounted beneath the barrel wheel, gilt brass grill pierced and engraved with foliage. Dim. 11 x 9 x 10.7 cm