Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 11, 2012

LOT 563

TISSOT SET OF FOUR MUSICAL WATCHES ? VIVALDI?S FOUR SEASONS Tissot, ?4 Seasons ? Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter?, Swiss. Fine, set of four, center-seconds, chrome-plated keyless pocket watches with visible built-in music box and visible skeletonized movement. Accompanied by the Tissot fitted box. To be sold without reserve

C. Three body, bassine, polished, stepped bezel, back with engraved foliate decoration and glazed aperture to view the movement, winding and activation button for the music. D. Matte silvered with radial engine-turning, applied steel baton indexes and Arabic quarter-hour numerals, the center with aperture to view the movement, aperture below 6 to view the music box, the surround painted with stylized fl owers and foliage, each watch with a different color to represent the season. Polished steel feuille hands. M. Gilt brass calibre, musical train with pinned cylinder and seventeen tooth, tuned comb, start/stop button on the back cover, skeletonized rhodium plated keyless watch movement, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self compensating fl at balance spring, shock absorber, micrometer regulator. Dial signed. Diam. 59 mm.