Exceptional horologic works of art

Hotel Noga Hilton, Geneva, Oct 11, 2003

LOT 269

T. Selling, London, made for the Russian market circa 1740. Very fine and rare 22K enamel and repousee pair cased quarter-repeating watch with a provision for à toc and à tact.

C. by "IW", outer: two-body, back with painted on enamel decoration of doves and flowers within a pierced, chased and engraved surround with four enameled vignettes, a stork, a swan, a dragon and a dog. Inner: Two-body, "bassine" with deep back, band very finely pierced and engraved with scrolling foliage and eagle and dogs head masks, village scene at the pendant and an elf mask at 6 o'clock, polished back with small rosette in the center.Gilt dust cover. D. gold, champlevé radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions with five-minute Arabic markers on polished cartouches, matted background, center repoussé with a scrolls and arabesques. Blued steel "beetle and poker" hands. M. 40 mm, frosted gilt full-plate with turned baluster pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, brass balance with flat balance spring, silver single-footed winged with pearced and accanthocladus decoration,plate mounted with conforming decoration, repeating on bell by depressing the pendant.Dial and movement signed, case with casemaker's trademark.Diam. 58 mm.