Recordon. A fine, rare and highly complicated 18K gold key wind open face Grande Sonnerie repeating clock watch, Circa 1805-10
Recordon. A fine, rare and highly complicated 18K gold key wind open face Grande Sonnerie repeating clock watch, Date: Circa 1805-10 Movement: Gilt two train half plate cylinder, plain 3-arm platinum balance, Breguet style compensation curb, ruby end stone, striking mechanism mounted to dial plate stamped 250 Dial: Two-tone silver with engine turned centre, black Roman numerals to brushed surround, subsidiary seconds at 6, blued steel Breguet style hands Case: Engine turned hinged, ribbed band, repeat button in pendant, locking slide in the band at 1, steel slide at 6 to move from Quarters to Hours et Quarters, round pendant and bow, No.16169 Signed: Dial & cuvette Size: 60mmRecordon. A fine, rare and highly complicated 18K gold key wind open face Grande Sonnerie repeating clock watch
Date: Circa 1805-10
Movement: Gilt two train half plate cylinder, plain 3-arm platinum balance, Breguet style compensation curb, ruby end stone, striking mechanism mounted to dial plate stamped 250
Dial: Two-tone silver with engine turned centre, black Roman numerals to brushed surround, subsidiary seconds at 6, blued steel Breguet style hands
Case: Engine turned hinged, ribbed band, repeat button in pendant, locking slide in the band at 1, steel slide at 6 to move from Quarters to Hours et Quarters, round pendant and bow, No.16169
Signed: Dial & cuvette
Size: 60mm
Footnotes Louis Recordon is listed as working from 1778 to 1824. He worked from Greek Street, Soho until 1797 when he succeeded Emery at No. 33 Cockspur Street. He was a maker of fine watches, with a variety of escapements. He was Breguet's agent in London and took out an English patent (No.1249) for self winding watches for him in 1780. On the current lot a small screw adjacent to the II fixes the dial to the movement in a manner characteristic of watches also by Breguet.
Provenance:
Lord Harris of Belmont, sold 30 April 1953 for £75 to T P Camerer Cuss
T P Camerer Cuss Collection
Illustrated:
T P Camerer Cuss A Neglected Chapter, featured in Antiquarian Horology Vol. 1 Number 2, March 1954, pages 10-11
T P Camerer Cuss, The Country Life Book of Watches , Country Life, 1967, plate 75
T P & T A Camerer Cuss, The Camerer Cuss Book of Antique Watches , AC C 1976, colour plate 3 and plate 101 Recordon. A fine, rare and highly complicated 18K gold key wind open face Grande Sonnerie repeating clock watch Date: Circa 1805-10
Movement: Gilt two train half plate cylinder, plain 3-arm platinum balance, Breguet style compensation curb, ruby end stone, striking mechanism mounted to dial plate stamped 250
Dial: Two-tone silver with engine turned centre, black Roman numerals to brushed surround, subsidiary seconds at 6, blued steel Breguet style hands
Case: Engine turned hinged, ribbed band, repeat button in pendant, locking slide in the band at 1, steel slide at 6 to move from Quarters to Hours et Quarters, round pendant and bow, No.16169
Signed: Dial & cuvette
Size: 60mm Date: Circa 1805-10
Movement: Gilt two train half plate cylinder, plain 3-arm platinum balance, Breguet style compensation curb, ruby end stone, striking mechanism mounted to dial plate stamped 250
Dial: Two-tone silver with engine turned centre, black Roman numerals to brushed surround, subsidiary seconds at 6, blued steel Breguet style hands
Case: Engine turned hinged, ribbed band, repeat button in pendant, locking slide in the band at 1, steel slide at 6 to move from Quarters to Hours et Quarters, round pendant and bow, No.16169
Signed: Dial & cuvette
Size: 60mm Footnotes Louis Recordon is listed as working from 1778 to 1824. He worked from Greek Street, Soho until 1797 when he succeeded Emery at No. 33 Cockspur Street. He was a maker of fine watches, with a variety of escapements. He was Breguet's agent in London and took out an English patent (No.1249) for self winding watches for him in 1780. On the current lot a small screw adjacent to the II fixes the dial to the movement in a manner characteristic of watches also by Breguet.
Provenance:
Lord Harris of Belmont, sold 30 April 1953 for £75 to T P Camerer Cuss
T P Camerer Cuss Collection
Illustrated:
T P Camerer Cuss A Neglected Chapter, featured in Antiquarian Horology Vol. 1 Number 2, March 1954, pages 10-11
T P Camerer Cuss, The Country Life Book of Watches , Country Life, 1967, plate 75
T P & T A Camerer Cuss, The Camerer Cuss Book of Antique Watches , AC C 1976, colour plate 3 and plate 101
