'The Country Dance' Prevost Freres, à Toulouse. Made circa 1820. Fine and rare, 18K gold musical pocket watch with quarter repeating. | Important Collectors Wristwatches, Pocket Watches, Clocks and Horological Tools | Geneva, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Du Rhône, 12th November 2006
?The Country Dance? Prevost Freres, à Toulouse. Made circa 1820. Fine and rare, 18K gold musical pocket watch with quarter repeating., CHF 11,000 - 14,000 EUR 7,000 - 9,000 / USD 9,000 - 11,000Sold: CHF 12,980 C. Three-body, ?Empire?, polished, reeded band. Hinged gilt metal cuvette. D. Gold with brushed chapter ring with radial Roman numerals, outer polished minute ring with dot divisions, the center engraved with a scene of country folk dancing in a wooded glade. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. 52 mm., frosted gilt, standing barrel, cylinder escapement, gold three-arm balance, flat blued steel balance spring, polished steel endplate, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by depressing the pendant, sur plateau musical movement with 25 blued steel tuned blades and six smaller blued steel blades playing the high notes, activated at will by a button in the band. Dial and cuvette signed. Diam. 59 mm. Important Collectors Wristwatches, P...
Geneva, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Du Rhône, Nov 12, 2006
LOT 179 ?The Country Dance? Prevost Freres, à Toulouse. Made circa 1820. Fine and rare, 18K gold musical pocket watch with quarter repeating.
CHF 11,000 - 14,000 EUR 7,000 - 9,000 / USD 9,000 - 11,000
Sold: CHF 12,980
C. Three-body, ?Empire?, polished, reeded band. Hinged gilt metal cuvette. D. Gold with brushed chapter ring with radial Roman numerals, outer polished minute ring with dot divisions, the center engraved with a scene of country folk dancing in a wooded glade. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. 52 mm., frosted gilt, standing barrel, cylinder escapement, gold three-arm balance, flat blued steel balance spring, polished steel endplate, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by depressing the pendant, sur plateau musical movement with 25 blued steel tuned blades and six smaller blued steel blades playing the high notes, activated at will by a button in the band. Dial and cuvette signed. Diam. 59 mm.
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