Important Watches, Wristwatches and C...

Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 18, 1998

LOT 156

Citzschkaw, London, No. 178, circa 1720. Unusual gilt-bronze watch with inverted movement and mock pendulum.

C. Double body oignon type, plain, the back with a winding hole shutter. D. Eccentric silver champleve with Roman numerals and outer Arabic minutes ring with the mock pendulum aperture below, the small disc for the regulator on the left and a mock one symmetrically placed on the right. Blued-steel "poker and beetle " hands. M. Hinged gilt-brass inverted full plate with elaborated Egyptian pillars, the back plate engraved with masks and foliage, verge escapement, plain steel balance with mock pendulum, set beneath the dial on the front plate, short flat balance spring. Signed on the back plate. Diam. 53 mm.