SWISS | A SILVER OPEN-FACED QUARTER REPEATING BRAS-EN-L'AIR WATCH WITH JACQUEMARTS, CIRCA 1790

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Lot №: 1196
Estimate: $5,312 - 5,871
28 October 2020
Sold price
$6,693

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