Important Watches Collector's Wristwa...

The Ritz-carlton Hotel, Feb 20, 2005

LOT 26

THE ESTIMATE FOR THIS LOT WAS CHANGED AT THE TIME OF THE AUCTION. ?Fountain of Love? David L. Gide, Geneva, No. 423, circa 1820. Very fine and rare 18K gold musical quarter-repeating pocket watch with automaton.

HKD 280,000 - 320,000

EUR 32,000 - 27,500 / USD 36,000 - 41,000

C. Three-body, "Empire", engine turned back with acentral musical trophy, reeded border and bezel, scallop-twistband, spring loaded gilt metal cuvette. D. White enamelannular chapter ring with Breguet numerals, outer minute divisions,glazed center enclosing a chased varicolored gold automaton scene of a young lady in a garden play-inga guitar and serenading Cupid atop a column beside a fountain, opaque dark blue enamel ground.Blued steel Breguet hands. M. 52 mm., frosted gilt half-plate with cylindrical pillars, two train with standing bar-rels,double-sided pinned disc sur plateau musical movement with polished steel sectional comb, activated on thehour or by a lever at will, cylinder escapement with three-arm brass balance, polished steel repeating workmounted on the backplate, repeating on two gongs by depressing the pendant.The case stamped DLG and numbered 423, the movement numbered 423.Diam. 63 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3 - 14
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3 - 14 - 01

Notes

David Gide (L.) worked in the Cornavin area of Geneva in the first part of the 19th Century. A very fine maker of repeating, automaton and fantasy watches often using virgule, ruby cylinder and duplex escapements. ?Dictionnaire des horlogers genevois? by Osvaldo Patrizzi, Antiquorum Editions, 1998.