HHunting-cased gold minute-repeating pocket watch with polychrome enamel automaton scene
HHunting-cased gold minute-repeating pocket watch with polychrome enamel automaton scene
Switzerland, La Chaux-de-Fonds
The 1890's
Girard Perregaux
Gold, steel, steel, glass, rhodium; guilloche, engraving, polishing, painted enamel, guilloche enamel
Diameter 5.7 cm, 152 rg
Swiss marks for gold in the form of a woman's head on the shield; “18 K”, “10052”. On the cuvette: “REPETITION A MINUTES”, “Automates”, “Girard Perredoux”, “CHAUX-DE-FONDS”, “MEDALLE D’OR”, “PARIS, 1889”. On the regulator scale: “Avance”, “Retard”
Hunter case, keyless, gold, minute-repeating pocket watch with unusual polychrome enamel automaton scene. Four-body case, “bassine et filet”, entirely engraved with leaves, scrolls and geometric patterns, the front lid with central monogram, the rear one is cantered with lion mask. Hinged gold cuvette engraved with the technical details in foliate rim, glazed gold-rimmed lid over the movement. White enamel dial, annular, Arabic numerals, external minutes' track and red painted five-minutes' numerals, subsidiary seconds, the center with enamel automaton scene of a torero and a bull, the torero’s arm and the bull’s head moving when the repeating is activated, royal blue translucent guilloche enamel background. Gold “pear” hands. Movement: 20’, rhodium-plated, wavy-line decoration, 29 jewels, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with peripheral gold adjustment screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band.
Инв.3179/ДПИ