Geneva, Nov 05, 2023

LOT 251

ROBERT ET FILS, SWITZERLAND, NEUCHATELOISE, PAINTED GILT BRASS MOUNTED BRACKET CLOCK MADE IN LA CHAUX DE FOND, EBONY

CHF 3,000 - 7,000

EUR 3,200 - 7,400 / USD 3,400 - 7,800 / HKD 26,000 - 61,000

TO BE SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE

Sold: CHF 1,000

A fine ebonized and brass, manual wind elaborately inlaid with brass over wood, glazed on front and curved sides, the front with hinged door decorated, laurel-leaf frame, hinged back door, brass finial with gilt foliate decoration surmounted by a brass urn, four brass legs of foliate form, edges with laurel-leaf pattern. Bracket en suite with finely chased mask at the top, acanthus leaf finial..White enamel dial, Roman numerals, outer minute divisions with five-minute Arabic markers, winding apertures at 4 and 8 o'clock.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent

Case: 3

Good

Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 3-01

Good

HANDS Original

Brand Robert et Fils, Switzerland

Model neuchateloise

Year Circa 1780

Length 360

Caliber rectangular brass plates, large spring barrels for both trains, verge escapement with silk suspension, striking the hours and quarters with five hammers on two bells mounted on the top of the case, outside countwheel numbered 1 ?12 and with quarter-hour snail, pull-wind quarter-repeating, strikework on the backplate in the typical Swiss manner.

Height 860

Width 140

Signature Movement

Notes

J. Robert et Filshorloger de Roi de Prusse, listed as working in La Chaux de Fonds, See: La Pendulerie Neuchateloise, Alfred Chapuis, 1983, p. 484.