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Grand Havana Room, New York, Sep 20, 2001

LOT 45

The CitternLepold Spickol in Wien, No. 117, circa 1830.Fine and amusing, 14K gold and enamel, pearl-set form watch with a concealed dial, in the shape of a cittern.

USD 3,500 - 4,500

C. Two-body, "fermée" type, the sound-board with translucent scarlet enamel over a flinqué ground, decorated with a single branch, the border and sound-hole set with half pearls, the balance cock visible through the sound-opening, the front of the neck with dark blue enamel straps separated by gold bars, the sound-box with blue champlevé enamel decorated with a single branch and an open musical score, the back of the neck in translucent dark enamel, the border with a geometrical pattern, the banwith a gold floral pattern alternating with half pearls. D. White enamel, Roman chapters, outer minute ring. Blued steel "Breguet" hands. M. 22 mm ø, hinged, gilt brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, fusee and chain, plain three-arm brass balance, continental cock pierced and engraved with scrolls and foliage.Signed on the movement.Diam. 67 x 28 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3 - 21
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3 - 03

Notes

The cittern, also called the "English guitar" during the eighteenth century, is an instrument of great antiquity, being exceedingly popular in Shakespeare's time.An almost identical watch was in the Lord Sandberg Collection, sold by Antiquorum in Geneva on March 31, 2001, lot 167.