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Geneva, May 10, 2026

LOT 303

UNSIGNED, SWITZERLAND, MUSICAL QUARTER REPEATING WATCH WITH VIRGULE ESCAPEMENT

CHF 5,000 - 10,000

HKD 49,600 - 100,000 / USD 6,400 - 12,700 / EUR 5,500 - 10,900 / JPY 1,010,000 - 2,020,000

TO BE SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE

Sold: CHF 6,875

A very fine and rare, large, 18k pink gold, manual wind open-face, key-winding musical pocket watch with quarter-repeating and virgule escapement, playing music on the hour or at will. White enamel dial with Arabic numerals, outer minute divisions. Blued steel Breguet hands.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3-19

Good

Dent(s)
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-01

Good

HANDS Original

Brand Unsigned, Switzerland

Year Circa 1820

Caliber 53 mm., matte gilt, half-plate, spring barrel for the going train, virgule escapement, three-arm balance, fl at balance spring, polished steel endpiece, index regulator, repeating on blued steel gongs activated by depressing the pendant, polished steel repeating work on the backplate, large barrel for the musical train with fi nely foliate engraved upper surface, polished steel stopwork, sur-plateau brass musical disc pinned on both sides, 22 individual tuned steel teeth playing on both sides of the disc.

Diameter 58 mm.

Weight 160 gr.

Notes

A fine Swiss musical watch in good condition and of large size. The foliate engraving on the musical barrel is reminiscent of that found on pieces by Jaquet Droz in the late 18th century and may well have been inspired by such a watch. The use of the virgule escapement is unusual and attests to the horological knowledge of the maker in producing a musical watch of better finish than most of this type