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

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 552. A RARE GOLD AND ENAMEL QUARTER REPEATING AUTOMATON WATCH WITH CLIMBING AND STRIKING JACQUEMARTS CIRCA 1825 [ 瑞士製罕有黃金飾琺瑯二問懷錶飾天使攀柱敲鐘活動人偶，年份約1825].

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A RARE GOLD AND ENAMEL QUARTER REPEATING AUTOMATON WATCH WITH CLIMBING AND STRIKING JACQUEMARTS CIRCA 1825 [ 瑞士製罕有黃金飾琺瑯二問懷錶飾天使攀柱敲鐘活動人偶，年份約1825]

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A RARE GOLD AND ENAMEL QUARTER REPEATING AUTOMATON WATCH WITH CLIMBING AND STRIKING JACQUEMARTS

CIRCA 1825

[ 瑞士製罕有黃金飾琺瑯二問懷錶飾天使攀柱敲鐘活動人偶，年份約1825]

• Movement: unsigned gilded full plate, verge escapement plain flat three-arm balance, decoratively pierced and engraved balance bridge, silver regulation disc, fusee and chain, cylindrical pillars, two polished steel hammers repeating on coiled blued steel gongs

• Dial: white enamel chapter ring with Arabic numerals, the centre with applied vari-colour gold scene, two automaton putti climbing stylised Corinthian columns and striking bells in unison with the repeating work, foliage and a dog at the base, all against a blued steel background partially skeletonised to reveal movement

• Case: gold engine-turned, milled band, repeating locking slide to left of pendant, Neuchâtelcontrol mark and stamped FLP incuse and numbered 9440

diameter 58mm

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This is an unusual adaptation of the striking Jacquemarts genre whereby, on depression of the pendant, the two Jacks first climb their columns before striking the bells hanging between them. For a similar scene also with climbing Jacquemarts in the form of putti, see: P. Friess, The Emergence of the Portable Watch, Patek Philippe Museum, inv. S-848, Vol. IV, p. 75.