Important Watches
Important Watches
Property from an Important Italian Collection
Auction Closed
October 28, 01:13 PM GMT
Estimate
3,800 - 4,200 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important Italian Collection
SWISS
A SILVER OPEN-FACED QUARTER REPEATING BRAS-EN-L'AIR WATCH WITH JACQUEMARTS
CIRCA 1790
Movement: gilded full plate, verge escapement
Dial: white enamel, applied vari-colour gold seated female figure, her arms holding arrows which raise to give the time on a pair of sectors indicating minutes and hours, while she shows the time the jacquemart putti strike the quarters
Case: silver, concave bezels, the arms activated by depressing the pendant, strike/silent slide to the band
diameter 64 mm