View full screen - View 1 of Lot 114. SWISS [瑞士製] | A RARE OVERSIZED GOLD AND ENAMEL QUARTER REPEATING GRANDE AND PETITE SONNERIE AUTOMATON CLOCKWATCH CIRCA 1900 [罕有特大型黃金畫琺瑯大小自鳴二問報時活動人偶懷錶,年份約1900].

SWISS [瑞士製] | A RARE OVERSIZED GOLD AND ENAMEL QUARTER REPEATING GRANDE AND PETITE SONNERIE AUTOMATON CLOCKWATCH CIRCA 1900 [罕有特大型黃金畫琺瑯大小自鳴二問報時活動人偶懷錶,年份約1900]

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June 16, 04:01 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 CHF

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SWISS

[ 瑞士製]


A RARE OVERSIZED GOLD AND ENAMEL QUARTER REPEATING GRANDE AND PETITE SONNERIE AUTOMATON CLOCKWATCH

CIRCA 1900

[ 罕有特大型黃金畫琺瑯大小自鳴二問報時活動人偶懷錶,年份約1900]


Movement: highly jewelled damascened two-train movement, lever escapement, some jewels carried in screwed gold chatons, bi-metallic compensation balance, hammers repeating on coiled gongs

• Dial: central white enamel dial, Roman numerals, eccentric running seconds, engine turned background with vari-coloured polychrome enamel Jacquemarts figures in fanciful Swiss Guard dress striking bells above

Case: heavy 18ct gold, glazed cuvette, the band with slides for silence/sonnerie and grande/petite, case back with Swiss hallmarks for 18ct gold and numbered 2196


diameter 65mm


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Grande and petite sonnerie clockwatches dating to the late 19th century and the early years of the 20th century are rare, especially those with the addition of automaton figures.