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」
A GOLD QUARTER REPEATING MUSICAL CYLINDER WATCH CIRCA 1815, NO. 2318 [瑞士/法國製黃金二問音樂懷錶,年份約1815,編號2318]
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November 12, 03:43 PM GMT
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4,000 - 6,000 CHF
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Swiss/French
A GOLD QUARTER REPEATING MUSICAL CYLINDER WATCH
CIRCA 1815, NO. 2318
[瑞士/法國製黃金二問音樂懷錶,年份約1815,編號2318]
• Movement: gilded, cylinder escapement, plain three-arm balance, two standing barrels for music and going trains, two steel hammers repeating on coiled gongs, music playing on a pinned disc by tuned tines
• Dial: gold engine-turned, white enamel chapter ring with Arabic numerals, polished outer minute ring, vacant white enamel banner
• Case: gold, engine-turned case back centred with a vacant roundel, milled band, gilt metal cuvette with apertures and directionals for winding and hand-setting, cuvettewith maker's mark C & J in oval cartouche and numbered 2318, case back with French control marks for 1809-1819 and indistinct maker's mark
diameter 58mm
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