Lot 2789
2789
SWISS. A FINE AND RARE GOLD OPENFACE QUARTER REPEATING VERGE WATCH WITH JACQUEMARTS AND AUTOMATON DEPICTING A KNIFE-GRINDER AND HIS ASSISTANT DRIVING A WHEEL
SWISS. A FINE AND RARE GOLD OPENFACE QUARTER REPEATING VERGE WATCH WITH JACQUEMARTS AND AUTOMATON DEPICTING A KNIFE-GRINDER AND HIS ASSISTANT DRIVING A WHEEL

UNSIGNED, CIRCA 1820

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SWISS. A FINE AND RARE GOLD OPENFACE QUARTER REPEATING VERGE WATCH WITH JACQUEMARTS AND AUTOMATON DEPICTING A KNIFE-GRINDER AND HIS ASSISTANT DRIVING A WHEEL
UNSIGNED, CIRCA 1820
Keywound verge movement, chain fusée, gilt cuvette, Arabic numerals on white enamel chapter ring, central blued steel background with an applied vari-coloured gold automaton scene with two putti jacquemarts, sitting on a bridge with an urn overflowing with flowers, striking two bells in unison with the repeating, a second automaton scene below, with a knife-grinder grinding a knife and his assistant spinning a wheel, all striking and repeating in unison by depressing the pendant, circular engine-turned case, the hinged back with central blank cartouche, pendant locking lever in the band, cuvette bearing the signature Breguet & Fils No. 93, case numbered 93 and stamped PE41
58.5 mm. diam.

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US$8,000-12,000

Similar watches are published in the Ruscitti book, as no. 60 and in A. Chapuis and E. Gelis, "Le Monde des Automates", 2nd volume, page 35, fig. 297.

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