Masterworks of Time: Splendours for the East 「時間傑作:西器東傳」

Masterworks of Time: Splendours for the East 「時間傑作:西器東傳」

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 538. A FINE AND RARE GOLD PERPETUELLE WATCH WITH FIFTY HOUR WIND INDICATION QUARTER REPEATING À TOC CIRCA 1820, NO. 3120 [ 罕有黃金自動上鏈懷錶,備50小時動力儲存顯示及二問報時功能,年份約1820,編號3120].

Charles Oudin

A FINE AND RARE GOLD PERPETUELLE WATCH WITH FIFTY HOUR WIND INDICATION QUARTER REPEATING À TOC CIRCA 1820, NO. 3120 [ 罕有黃金自動上鏈懷錶,備50小時動力儲存顯示及二問報時功能,年份約1820,編號3120]

Lot Closed

November 12, 03:39 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 CHF

Lot Details

Description

Charles Oudin


A FINE AND RARE GOLD PERPETUELLE WATCH WITH FIFTY HOUR WIND INDICATION QUARTER REPEATING À TOC

CIRCA 1820, NO. 3120

[ 罕有黃金自動上鏈懷錶,備50小時動力儲存顯示及二問報時功能,年份約1820,編號3120]


Movement: gilded, ruby cylinder escapement, bi-metallic compensation balance with three large cylindrical weights and 3 poising screws at the arms, parachute suspension, large swinging pendulum-form weight, banking springs with rollers to each side, standing barrel, polished steel hammer repeating on a block to the inside of the band

Dial: gold engine-turned, satin finished chapter ring with Roman numerals, outer minute ring, subsidiary seconds, fan-form sector for 50-hour state of wind indication, blued steel moon hands, polished oval roundel signed Ch.les Oudin

Case: gold, polished back, milled band, quarter-turn plunger to the band for activating repeat, gold cuvette with two photo etched portraits of a gentleman and a lady within oval cartouches, surrounded by chased and engraved flowers and foliage against a stippled ground, case back numbered 3120 with rubbed French hallmarks and case maker's mark


diameter 58.5mm


To view Shipping Calculator, please click here

Sotheby's Geneva, 17 November 1988, lot 366
For a note on Charles Oudin, see lot 539.