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Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces
27 March 2011 |
Sold including buyer's premium:
2,125 CHF |
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| Klein – Automobile Vanty Set with Watch
Retailed by Klein, 38 Boulevard des Italiens, Paris. Made circa 1920.
Fine and rare, silver-gilt, glass, mahogany and leather vanity set for a motor car set with a keyless watch.
To be sold without reserve
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| C. Serpentine with flat back and two brackets for mounting, silver gilt edge, maker’s mark EM, containing five cut glass bottles with
silver-gilt lids, bevelled mirror with silver gilt frame, the front set with a watch.
D. White enamel with Arabic numerals, outer minute track. Black spade hands.
M. Frosted gilt, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index
regulator. Back of mirror stamped Klein. Dim. 23.5 x 14.5 x 8.5 cm. |
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Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces
27 March 2011 |
Sold including buyer's premium:
2,250 CHF |
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| French Automobile Vanty Set with Watch
French, probably Paris. Made circa 1925.
Fine and rare, silver, enamel, glass and crocodile vanity set for a motor car set with a keyless watch.
To be sold without reserve
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| C. Angled rectangular with flat back and two brackets for mounting, silver edge, maker’s mark JM, containing a cut glass perfume
bottle with silver and enamel lids decorated in imitaion of lapis lazuli, two jars to match, bevelled mirror with silver and enamel
frame, the front set with a watch with octagonal bezel.
D. Champagne with black radial Arabic numerals, outer minute divisions. Blued steel spade hands.
M. Frosted gilt, straight-line lever escapement, uncut balance, flat balance spring, index... continue |
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Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces
27 March 2011 |
Sold including buyer's premium:
2,750 CHF |
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| Silver Desk Compenium
Swiss, retailed by Spaulding & Co., (Chicago). Made circa 1915.
Fine and rare, silver, parallelogram-shaped desk compendium with keyless 8-day going clock, barometer, triple date calendar,
thermometers for Centigrade and Farenheit and compass.
To be sold without reserve
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| C. Three-body, parallelogram-shaped, polished, curved bezels for the clock and barometer dials, two hinged doors at the back,
one set with two thermometers with engraved scales for Centigrade and Farenheit, the other with manual triple-date calendar,
compass set in the top, hinged triangular handle.
D. Champagne with painted radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions. Blued steel spade hands.
M. Frosted gilt, large ratcheted barrel on the backplate in the manner of Jacot-Bovy for the mainspring with... continue |
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Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces
27 March 2011 |
Sold including buyer's premium:
1,625 CHF |
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| Didisheim Goldshmidt - Le Jongleur
Didisheim Goldshmidt, Fils & Cie., Swiss, “Le Jongleur”, No. 58247. Made circa 1920.
Fine and unusual digital automaton table timepiece.
To be sold without reserve
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| C. Gilt bronze framed painting, silvered gallery with cast formal decoration, malachite side pieces, standing on a rectangular yellow
marble base.
D. Featuring a seated Chinese figure juggling with a playing card in one hand and an egg in the other, disclosing the apertures for
the digital hours and minutes when depressing the button at the top.
M. 19’’’, brass three-quarter plate with going barrel, 2 jewels, pin pallet Roskopf escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, blued
steel flat balance spring.... continue |
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Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces
27 March 2011 |
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| Longines – 36-Hour Marine Lever Chronometer
Longines, "Chronometer", retailed by A. Wittnauer Co., New York, movement No. 3970615. Made circa 1945.
Fine, mahogany-cased, 36-hour going, keyless, marine lever chronometer with power reserve indication.
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| C. Two-tier mahogany box, gimballed and weighted brass case, threaded glazed bezel with reeded edge.
D. Matte silver, Arabic hour numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds dial at 6 o'clock with Arabic 10-second numerals,
power reserve indication below 12. Blued steel spade and lozenge hands.
M. Cal. 21.29, 19’’’, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 15 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic
compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, patented cam-type... continue |
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Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces
27 March 2011 |
Sold including buyer's premium:
7,500 CHF |
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| Cupid & Psyche
French, the bronze in the manner of Pierre Philippe Thomire (1751-1843). Made circa 1850.
Very fine and impressive, Empire-style, bronze and yellow marble, 8-day going, hour and half-hour striking mantel clock.
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| C. Yellow veined marble clock case with arch-top, hinged palmette cast bezel, the fine bronze figures of Cupid & Psyche enbracing
above, the front with applied bronze perfume-burner mount, rectangular marble base with applied swag and lamp mount, raised
on paw feet.
D. Gilt engine-turned with painted radial Roman numerals, outer minute track. Blued steel Breguet hands.
M. Circular gilt-brass, going barrels for both trains, anchor escapement, silk suspension, outside countwheel striking on a bell.
Dial... continue |
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Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces
27 March 2011 |
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| Cleret – The Golden Harbor Musical Automaton Clock
A. Cleret à Paris, No. 7869. Made circa 1840.
Very fine and rare, musical, gilt-bronze, bronze and inlaid rosewood, 8-day going, hour and half-hour striking table clock with
rocking ship automaton and playing six tunes in sequence at will. Accompanied by a glass shade.
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| C. Gilt-bronze in the form of a rocky outcrop above a harbour surmounted and flanked by fortifications and buildings, bronze palm
tree and two cannons to the side, the harbor walls above rocky outcrop, fabric "sea" where the ship rides the waves driven by a
separate movement to the music, polished rosewood base containing the musical movement inlaid with mythical sea monsters and
buildings, pull-levers to start the automaton and the music.
D. Silvered with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track.... continue |
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| Tiffany & Co. Gold Travel Clock
Tiffany & Co., the movement by Concord Watch Co., Swiss.
Made circa 1915.
Fine, 14K yellow gold, 8-day going, folding travel clock.
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a coat of arms and monogram "Labore et Perseverentia", flat
bezel. Hinged gilt metal cuvette.
D. White enamel with Arabic numerals, outer minute track.
Luminous blued steel skeleton hands.
M. 19’’’, rhodium plated, 15 jewels, straight-line lever
escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating
Breguet balance spring, index regulator.
Dial and case signed Tiffany & Co., movement signed
Concord Watch Co.
Dim. 7.5 x 6.5 cm. |
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| Omega Art Deco Clock
Omega, "8-Days", Swiss, movement No. 6752433, case
No. 7549283. Made circa 1925.
Fine and rare, 8-day going, chromed, enamel and green onyx
Art Deco desk clock.
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| C. Pylon-form decorated with green and black champleve
enamel, stepped rectangular green onyx base.
D. Two-tone silver and pink gilt with Art-Deco Arabic
numerals, outer minute track, brushed pink gilt center. Black
Art Deco half-skeleton hands.
M. Cal. 59-8D, 15 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut
bimetallic compensation balance with 3 adjustments, blued
steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator.
Dial and movement signed.
Dim. 19.5 x 27 x 7 cm. |
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27 March 2011 |
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| The Singing Blackbird
Attributed to Blaise Bontems, Paris, circa 1860.
Extremely rare and spectacular singing automaton blackbird turning its head, flapping its wings, and opening its beak as it sings.
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| C. Superbly made and feathered to resemble a real blackbird, body formed of a brass shell, blackened brass legs, glass eyes and
real beak.
M. Shaped, brass, going barrel, cams controlling the song and the bird's movements, rectangular bellows mounted in the tail,
piston below.
Dim. Length 16 cm, height 12.5 cm. |
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