Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 10, 2013

LOT 205

COURVOISIER GRAND & PETITE SONNERIE QUARTER REPEATING CLOCK WATCH YELLOW GOLD Henry Courvoisier, Geneva, No. 14225. Made circa 1800. Very fine and rare, 18K pink gold quarter-repeating clock watch with grand and petite sonnerie.

C. Four-body, polished, ribbed band, lever at 2 o?clock to lock the repeat and at 7 to activate the sonnerie, button in the bow to activate the repeater. Hinged gilt brass cuvette with aperture for regulation. D. White enamel with Arabic numerals, outer minute track, apertures for the widing of the 2 trains. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. 55 mm, gilt brass two-train, with standing barrel for the going train, cylinder type escapement, plain gold three-arm balance, flat balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by depressing a button in the pendant. Dial, cuvette and movement signed. DIAM. 60 mm