Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong, Jul 10, 2005

LOT 50

Geneva, No. 44, circa 1820. Very fine 18K gold quarter-repeating musical watch playing on the hour or at will.

C. Four-body, "Empire", engine-turned, gilt hinged cuvette, bolt at 6o'clock to activate the music, lever at 9 o'clock protrudingfrom under the cuvette for music/silent. D. Gold, flinqué radial Romannumerals, outer minute track, acorn and oak-leaf decorationbetween the numerals, engine-turned center and outermost. Blued steel"serpentine" hands. M. 52 mm. (23'''), gilt brass, fixedbarrels, cylinder escapement, three-arm gold balance with flat balancespring, sur plateau musical movement, 27 tuned vibrating bladesacting on both sides of the pinned disc, repeating on gongs by depressingthe pendant.Case numbered and punched with illegible casemaker's mark, movement numberedon the pillar plate.Diam. 58 mm.