Important Watches, Wristwatches, Cloc...
Basel April 21, 1990, Apr 21, 1990
LOT 477
Piguet & Meylan, Geneve, made for the Chinese market circa 1815. Extremely fine, 18K gold and enamel pearl set quarter repeating musical watch with center seconds.
CHF 150,000 - 200,000
Four body "basket" case with split pearl set enamel bezel, band, pendant and bow, the enamel back with a very fine polychrome painted portrait of a young gentle-man with a palmist. Gold cuvette with champleve enamelled musical trophies and further floral decoration on a light blue ground. Small offset white dial with Roman numerals on a gold enamel dial plate finely painted with a landscape, on the foreground, an applied chased yellow gold Cupid is riding a pink gold lion. Blued steel "scoties" hands. Gilt brass double train movement with a going barrel, inverted cylinder escapement with a plain brass three armed balance. Musical train with a pointed disc and 19 vibrating steel blades. Repeating on gongs by means of the depressing pendant. In very good condition. Diam. 57 mm.
