Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 14, 2017

LOT 251

MARTINOT A PARIS Martinot a Paris, circa 1880,number 2734. Very fine and unusual 8 day going, hour and half hour striking, Boulle work.

Shaped, glazed on three sides, the gilt-brass veneer with foliate marquetry. Gilt-bronze cherud bottom corner pieces extending into feet. Gilt bronze framed, glass door with gilt- bronze applied scene in the centre bottom of a Cupid . The arch with applied, chased gilt-bronze beading with central bouquet of flowers and drop pieces in the form foliage. Matching pediment and bracket, the pediment surmounted by a vase. Gilt bronze, white enamel cartouches with black Roman numerals, inner engraved quarter hours, outer minutes with one-minute Arabic markers, center chased with scrolling, flower, winding apertures at 4 and 8 o'clock. Blued steel "fleur- de-lis and poker" hands. Rectangular with turned conical pillars, two train with going barrels for each, anchor escapement, brass rod pendulum, striking on one bell with a single hammer.