A9045

Gold Quarter Repeating Cylinder

£2,200.00

Signed  Swiss
Circa   1830
A 19th Century Swiss quarter repeating cylinder with gold engine turned dial in a gold open face case.
Diameter   44 mm         

Out of stock

Description

A 19th Century Swiss quarter repeating cylinder with gold engine turned dial in a gold open face case.  Keywind gilt bar movement with suspended going barrel.  Plain cock with blue steel regulator, plain three arm gilt balance with blue steel spiral hairspring.  Polished steel cylinder, steel escape wheel.  Push pendant quarter repeating on two rectangular section polished steel gongs. Engine turned gold dial with black champleve enamel Roman numerals, blue steel hands.  Engine turned 18 carat open face case, the gold pendant pulled out and twisted to activate the repeat.  Ribbed middle, wound and set through the plain gold cuvette.