Swiss gold enamel musical and automaton repeater Circa 1810
- Kenmerk
- AA0056
- Diameter
- 59 mm
- Estimate
- € 40.000 - 75.000
- Price sold
- € 38.150
Musical automaton repeating watch by Henry Capt
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A Swiss gold, enamel quarter repeating open faced pocket watch with automaton scene, The Frisky Cupid, and music, circa 1810.
This watch with automata and music has a quarter-repeater on two steel gongs (activated by depressing the pendant), an animated scene triggered upon request (activated by the button at 5 o’clock), with two functions; a musical train with pinned barrel and eight blued steel tuned blades mounted in two stacks of four set between the plates.
The round-shaped 18-carat yellow gold and enamel case has a signed case ring. The dial has a scene depicting a young man standing against a tree, playing his lyre for a sitting maiden, playing with a frisky Cupid jumping on her foot, and an eccentric gold dial with Breguet numerals and Breguet hands. And the gilded brass movement is key-winding with going barrel, cylinder escapement, monometallic balance, and blued steel flat hairspring.
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Diameter: 58.5 mm
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Signed: Henry Capt
























