Unusual French repeating and striking coach watch Circa 1760
- Kenmerk
- CH1556
- Diameter
- 76 mm
- Estimate
- € 15.000 - 30.000
- Price sold
- € 15.400
Four train verge with date and alarm by Mathias Charles Schreiner
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A very fine, rare and unusual French silver and vari-colour gold four train quarter repeating and striking coach watch with date and alarm, circa 1760. Gilt brass full plate four train verge movement, chain fusée, plain three armed brass balance, finely pierced and engraved balance cock decorated with trophies of musical instruments, scroll and foliage, striking, repeating and alarm on four hammers onto a bell, pull quarter repeat. White enamel dial with Roman numerals, outer railway and Arabic minute divisions, blued steel beetle and poker hands, small date aperture to 9 o’clock manually adjusted by a lever above 12, central revolving alarm disc. Finely pierced, chased and engraved case decorated with applied vari-coloured gold classical landscape, bezel decorated with applied vari-coloured vignettes depicting different animals, gimbaled pendant, silence/strike lever underneath the dial. Movement signed Mathias Charles Menuisier Le Jeune, dial band signed Mathias Charles Schreiner Le Jeune.
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Diameter: 76 mm
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Signed: Mathias Charles Menuisier Le Jeune – Mathias Charles Schreiner Le Jeune
Signed: Mathias Charles Menuisier Le Jeune – Mathias Charles Schreiner Le Jeune












