Important Watches, Wristwatches and C...

Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 18, 1997

LOT 428

A. H. Rhodanet, Fournisseur de la Marine de l ' Etat, circa 1890. Fine gilt bronze eight day going, hour and half hour striking, hour repeating carriage clock with alarm.

C. Gilt bronze, "corniche", glazed four faces and top. D. White enamel with Roman numerals and outer Arabic minute ring. Blued steel Breguet hands. Silvered engine-turned dial plate with small subsidiary white enamel alarm setting dial. M. Gilt brass rectangular with going barrels both for the going and the striking trains, silvered platform with lateral lever escapement, uncut bimetallic balance, flat balance spring, striking and repeating on gongs with button at the top. Alarm on gong. Signed on the dial and back plate. Dim. 14 x 9 x 8 cm.