Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 10, 2013

LOT 380

SCHREINER - SILVER & VARICOLORED GOLD COACH WATCH Mathias Charles Schreiner/Menuisier Le Jeune. Made in Friedberg circa 1760. Very fine and extremely rare, small, silver and varicolored gold, four-train coach watch with hour and quarter striking and repeating, date and alarm.

CHF 20,000 - 30,000

HKD 165,000 - 250,000 / USD 21,000 - 32,000

Two-body, very finely pierced, chased and engraved with applied varicolored gold landscape of imagined classical ruins, asymmetric scrollwork border, bezel decorated to match and with applied varicolored gold animal vignettes, strike/silent lever in the dial plate, pendant with loose barrel and ring. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and Arabic five minute numerals, inner enamel alarm disc with Arabic numerals. Blued steel hands. 75 mm., gilt, full-plate, conical pillars, fusee with chain, spring barrels for the striking, repeating and alarm trains, polished steel hammers, verge escapement, three-arm brass balance, blued steel flat balance-spring, finely pierced, chased and engraved cock, polished steel endplate, calibrated silver regulator disc, trip quarter repeating, striking and alarm on a bell in the back of the case, with independent trains for quarters and hours, a lever for silence/strike.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-77-04

Good

ENAMEL AND VARIOUS TYPES OF DECORATION Restored soft enamel

HANDS Later

Notes

Dial plate and movement signed. DIAM. 95 mm. The case of this watch is extremely unusual and lavish. The silver body has been applied with different colored golds which give DEPTH to the design of classical ruins. The bezel is further decorated with four vignettes of different animals. It is exceptional to find a coach watch with varicolored gold decoration.