Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Nov 16, 2008

LOT 32

Quarter-Repeat and Alarm Noel Vacheron a Genève, No. 12666. Made circa 1830. Fine and rare, quarter-repeating, two-train, 18K gold pocketwatch with alarm and cylinder escapement.

C. Three-body, ?bassine et filet?, mastermark HC, engine-turned back and bezel, the band pierced and engraved with foliage, wheel at the side of the dial for setting the alarm hand. Fixed gold cuvette with pierced sound holes and engraved flowers, further sprung hinged gilt cuvette. D.White enamel with Breguet numerals, outer minute divisions, inner alarm divisions, winding apertures for both trains. Gilt lozenge hour and minute hands, steel alarm hand. M. 46 mm., matte gilt, conical pillars, fixed going barrel, maltese cross stopwork to both barrels, cylinder escapement with steel escape wheel, three-arm brass balance, pierced and foliate chased continental type balance cock with polished steel end-piece, silver regulation dial, repeating with two hammers on a bell in the back of the case, alarm train with fixed barrel and sounding on the bell with a further hammer. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 57 mm.