'The Woodcutters' Bordier & Roux et Cie, Genève, No. 10569. The movement and automaton Inventé par Antoine Rojard à Genève. Made in 1802. Extremely fine and rare, 18K gold and enamel, quarter repeating pocket watch with automaton scene, and special movement with special escapement. | Important Collectors' Wristwatches, Pocket Watches & Clocks | Geneva, Hotel Noga Hilton, 16th October 2005
?The Woodcutters? Bordier & Roux et Cie, Genève, No. 10569. The movement and automaton Inventé par Antoine Rojard à Genève. Made in 1802. Extremely fine and rare, 18K gold and enamel, quarter repeating pocket watch with automaton scene, and special movement with special escapement., CHF 33,000 - 43,000 EUR 20,000 - 28,000 / USD 27,000 - 35,000Sold: CHF 86,250 C. Two-body, ?Directoire?, polished, Mastermark CL, the band pierced with sound slots. D. Small, white enamel with Breguet numerals, outer minute track and Arabic quarter-hour numerals. Blued steel Breguet hands. Very finely painted enamel scene of a woodcutter?s hut in a river landscape, applied multicoloured gold figures of the kneeling woodcutters using a steel band-saw to cut a log, to the left a man up a ladder chopping a tree with an axe, to the right a fountain, above two flying cherubs holding torches and appearing to strike two bells. M. 46 mm., frosted gilt, crescent shaped backplate with two bells sunk into the movement, flared cylindrical pillars, going barrel, virgule escapement, three-arm balance, flat blued steel balance spring, index regulator. Movement signed and numbered, case numbered. Dial scratch signed on the reverse: Ante. Rojard a Geneve, L?an 1802. Scratch signed on the movement below the barrel: Invente L?an 1802, Rojard a Geneve. Bell scratch signed: Cheneviere. Diam. 59 mm.Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...
Geneva, Hotel Noga Hilton, Oct 16, 2005
LOT 245 ?The Woodcutters? Bordier & Roux et Cie, Genève, No. 10569. The movement and automaton Inventé par Antoine Rojard à Genève. Made in 1802. Extremely fine and rare, 18K gold and enamel, quarter repeating pocket watch with automaton scene, and special movement with special escapement.
CHF 33,000 - 43,000 EUR 20,000 - 28,000 / USD 27,000 - 35,000
Sold: CHF 86,250
C. Two-body, ?Directoire?, polished, Mastermark CL, the band pierced with sound slots. D. Small, white enamel with Breguet numerals, outer minute track and Arabic quarter-hour numerals. Blued steel Breguet hands. Very finely painted enamel scene of a woodcutter?s hut in a river landscape, applied multicoloured gold figures of the kneeling woodcutters using a steel band-saw to cut a log, to the left a man up a ladder chopping a tree with an axe, to the right a fountain, above two flying cherubs holding torches and appearing to strike two bells. M. 46 mm., frosted gilt, crescent shaped backplate with two bells sunk into the movement, flared cylindrical pillars, going barrel, virgule escapement, three-arm balance, flat blued steel balance spring, index regulator. Movement signed and numbered, case numbered. Dial scratch signed on the reverse: Ante. Rojard a Geneve, L?an 1802. Scratch signed on the movement below the barrel: Invente L?an 1802, Rojard a Geneve. Bell scratch signed: Cheneviere. Diam. 59 mm.
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