Revillon. A fine, rare and attractive 18K gold and enamel two train openface quarter repeating petite sonnerie clock watch with date and duplex escapement

SIGNED REVILLON À MÂCON, CIRCA 1825

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Revillon. A fine, rare and attractive 18K gold and enamel two train openface quarter repeating petite sonnerie clock watch with date and duplex escapement
Signed Revillon à Mâcon, circa 1825
Gilt-finished two-train movement, double wheel duplex escapement, bimetallic compensation curb on the regulator, diamond endstone, repeating and petite sonnerie hour and quarter striking on two hammers onto two gongs, Q/H lever underneath the gold cuvette, white enamel dial, Breguet numerals, blued steel hands with gold dagger tops, gold central hand for the inner date indicaion with Arabic numerals, outer railway minute divisions, large circular case, band decorated with translucent Royal blue champlevé enamel floral and scroll decoration, hinged engine turned back with blue enamel surround and engraved shield with the initials ALN on the bottom, the inner side of the shield traced in blue enamel, repeating through a push-button in the pendant, cuvette signed
60 mm. diam.

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Lot Essay

The watch and clockmaker Thomas Revillon of Mâcon, Saône-et-Loire, is noted in the 1828 Journal of the Franklin Institute for his sundry inprovements in striking the hours of public and private clocks as well as for a wine press, acting by means of a pendulum, and for the application of a pendulum to mechanics. See also Tardy's Dictionnaire des Horlogers Français, p. 552.

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