Masterworks of Time: Splendours for the East 「時間傑作：西器東傳」

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 524. A GOLD OPEN-FACED TWO-TIME ZONE CALENDAR DUPLEX WATCH WITH CENTRE SECONDS MADE FOR THE CHINESE MARKET CIRCA 1870, NO. 130 [ 黃金兩地時間日曆懷錶，為中國市場製造，年份約1870，編號130].

Brunschwik à Lyon

A GOLD OPEN-FACED TWO-TIME ZONE CALENDAR DUPLEX WATCH WITH CENTRE SECONDS MADE FOR THE CHINESE MARKET CIRCA 1870, NO. 130 [ 黃金兩地時間日曆懷錶，為中國市場製造，年份約1870，編號130]

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Brunschwik à Lyon

A GOLD OPEN-FACED TWO-TIME ZONE CALENDAR DUPLEX WATCH WITH CENTRE SECONDS MADE FOR THE CHINESE MARKET

CIRCA 1870, NO. 130

[ 黃金兩地時間日曆懷錶，為中國市場製造，年份約1870，編號130]

• Movement: gilded partially skeletonised Tixier calibre movement, the bridges highly decoratively engraved, duplex escapement, unusual balance with balustraded rim

• Dial: white enamel, separate subsidiary dials for each time zone, one with Arabic the other Roman numerals, outer minute rings, central blued steel jumping seconds hand, two further subsidiary dials for date and day of the week, dial edge calibrated for months with corresponding number of days

• Case: gold, engine-turned back, milled band, inside back with decor moiré style engine-turned decoration and plaque numbered 130, gold cuvette with apertures for winding and hand-setting the separate time zones, cuvette engraved 'Echappement Duplex, Seconde Fixe, Deux Meridiens et Calendrier Perpétuel fait par Brunschwik à Lyon', numbered 130 to cuvette interior

diameter 54mm

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