MOULINIE BAUTTE & MOYNIER | A GOLD OPEN-FACED QUARTER REPEATING MUSICAL WATCH WITH ALARM CIRCA 1825

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MOULINIE BAUTTE & MOYNIER

A GOLD OPEN-FACED QUARTER REPEATING MUSICAL WATCH WITH ALARM

CIRCA 1825

• Movement: gilded ³/₄ plate movement, ruby cylinder escapement, Lépine barrel for going train, pivoted barrel for the alarm mechanism, musical barrel, repeating on two gongs, music playing on demand via a slide to the band or at pre-selected alarm time

• Dial: white enamel dial, Arabic numerals, inner alarm chapter, outer minute chapters, blued steel hands and short alarm hand

• Case: gold engine-turned, reeded bezels and band, plunge pendant, numbered 8199, indistinct gold marks, gilt metal cuvette signed Moulinie Bautte & Moynier, à Geneve

diameter 60mm

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The Sir David Salomons Collection

Vera Bryce Salomons

L.A. Mayer Memorial Institute, Jerusalem, inventory no. WA 32-70

George Daniels & Ohannes Markarian, Watches and Clocks in the Sir David Salomons Collection, 1980, pp. 188-189, figs. 112-112c