- 93
Nicole Nielsen, London
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
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Description
- A RARE AND VERY FINE GOLD KEYLESS LEVER OPEN FACED GRANDE AND PETITE SONNERIE QUARTER REPEATING CLOCK WATCH1905, NO. 12184
- gold
- diameter 55.5 mm
• gilt three-quarter plate movement, ratchet tooth lever escapement, jewelled to the centre, the back-plate with screw-set jewels, bi-metallic compensation balance, decoratively engraved balance cock, diamond endstone, winding in opposite directions for going and striking trains • off-white enamel Willis dial, Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds, blued steel hands • 18k gold plain polished hinged cuvette, 18k gold bassine case, plain polished back, setting levers for strike/silent and grande/petite sonnerie concealed beneath the bezel, olivetted set-hands push, hallmarked gold pendant and bow, case and cuvette numbered and with case maker's mark RN for Robert Benson North, London hallmarks for 1905 • movement signed Nicole Nielsen & Co., 14 Soho Square, London, No. 12184
Literature
Terence Camerer Cuss, The English Watch 1585-1970, p. 445, pl. 289
Catalogue Note
Nicole, Nielsen & Co. signed relatively few watches, however, they were well known in England as important suppliers of movements to such prominent firms as Charles Frodsham, M.F. Dent, and E. J. Dent & Co.
The present lot, like much of the firm's output, was based on an ebauche imported from Switzerland to England.