Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 16, 2014

LOT 297

MUSICAL AND REPEATING GOLD POCKET WATCH Attributed to Piguet et Meylan, Geneva, No. 1898. Made circa 1820. Very fine and rare, 18K gold, quarter-repeating, musical pocket watch with music playing on the hour or at will. Accompanied by a mahogany later fitted box.

Four-body, "Empire", master mark 'AP', engine-turned with polished rims, bolt at 10 to activate the music. Hinged gilt brass cuvette with apertures for winding and hand-setting. Gold, engine-turned with radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions, engine-turned center. Blued steel Breguet hands. 46 mm.(20'''), gilt brass two-train, with standing barrel for the going train, cylinder escapement, plain three-arm balance, flat balance spring, polished steel endplate, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by depressing the pendant. Sur plateau musical movement, 28 tuned, blued steel vibrating blades acting on both sides of the pinned disc, music/silence lever at the edge of the cuvette beneath the back cover. Dial plate punched numbered 1898, case numbered 1898.