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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 15, 2000

LOT 385

Christoph Stiller, Berlin, circa 1740Very fine silver repoussé, quarter repeating coach watch with alarm.

CHF 25,000 - 30,000

USD 14,000 - 17,000

C. Double-body, the bezel pierced and chased with foliage and dogs chasing a rabbit, the repoussé back depicting a scene of the Battle of Vienna, four repoussé busts on the border of three men and a woman, alternated with pierced and engraved foliage, swiveling pendant, loose ring. D. Silver champlevé with Roman numerals, outer Arabic minute ring with arched divisions, inner revolving alarm setting disc, elaborate 'poker and beetle' handsM. Hinged gilt-brass full plate, Egyptian pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement, plain steel three-arm balance, flat balance spring, fine English type gilt brass cock pierced and engraved with foliage. Pull wind repeating and alarm trains with gilt brass fixed barrels engraved with geometrical pattern, alarm setting arbor at 11 o?clock. Striking on a bell.Signed on the back plate.Diam. 110 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3 - 01

Notes

The actual maker was in all likelihood Benedict Fürstenfelder of Friedberg. In fact the watch is from the same series as lot 383, which shows a repoussé battle like this lot, and has a similar movement. About Friedberg watchmaking, see note to lot 383.The repoussé scene shows the meeting between the victorious Prince Eugène de Savoie-Carignan, known as 'Prince Eugène', and the defeated Kara Mustapha, after the Battle of Vienna of 1683.