Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 17, 2013

LOT 309

MUSICAL AND REPEATING GOLD POCKET WATCH Attributed to Piguet et Meylan, Geneva, No. 169, also signed J. H. Sautter à Genève, No. 10065. Made circa 1820. Very fine and rare, 18K gold, quarter-repeating, musical pocket watch with music playing on the hour or at will.

C. Four-body, ?Empire?, master mark ?DM?, polished, reeded band, bolt at 1 o?clock to lock the repeat and at 10 to activate the music. Hinged gilt brass cuvette with apertures for winding and hand-setting. D. Gold, radial Roman numerals on a brushed chapter ring, outer minute divisions, engine-turned center. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. 52 mm (22???), gilt brass two-train, with standing barrel for the going train, cylinder escapement, plain three-arm balance, flat balance spring, polished steel endplate, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by depressing the pendant. Sur plateau musical movement, 23 tuned, blued steel vibrating blades acting on both sides of the pinned disc, music/silence lever at the edge of the cuvette beneath the back cover. Dial plate punched numbered 169, case numbered 169, cuvette signed J. H. Sautter à Genève. DIAM. 57 mm