Centuries of Time: A Private Collection

Centuries of Time: A Private Collection

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Swiss

A rare gold quarter repeating watch with climbing jacquemart automaton Circa 1820

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Auction Closed

May 14, 02:23 PM GMT

Estimate

7,000 - 9,000 CHF

Lot Details

Description

Swiss


A rare gold quarter repeating watch with climbing jacquemart automaton

Circa 1820


• Movement: full plate gilded, verge escapement, plain three-arm balance, pierced and engraved balance bridge, silver regulation plate, fusee and chain, turned pillars, repeating on coiled gongs, gilt-metal cuvette with aperture for winding

• Dial: Breguet numerals on outer white enamel chapter ring, centred by an applied vari-coloured gold neoclassical building, the cupid-form Jacquemarts climbing columns and striking bells above in tandem with the repeat work, foliage and dog at the base, all against a blued steel plate

• Case: gold circular engine-turned case, milled band, plunge pendant repeat, pending locking slide to left of pendant, inside case back with makers mark FLP, numbered 9440 and with Neuchâtel control mark for 1820-1866


diameter 58mm

This is an unusual adaptation of the striking Jacquemarts genre whereby, on depression of the pendant, the two Jacks first climb their columns before striking the bells hanging between them. For a similar scene also with climbing Jacquemarts in the form of putti, see: P. Friess, The Emergence of the Portable Watch, Geneva: Patek Philippe Museum, inv. S-848, Vol. IV, p. 75.