ATTRIBUTABLE TO PIGUET ET MEYLAN
ATTRIBUTABLE TO PIGUET ET MEYLAN, SWITZERLAND, LE JARDIN DE CUPIDON, QUARTER-REPEATING, MUSICAL AND FOUR AUTOMATON ACTIONS, PLAYING MUSIC ON THE HOUR OR AT WILL, 18K PINK GOLD
A fine, 18k pink gold, manual wind open face pocket watch with four automaton actions, playing music on the hour or at will. Painted on enamel scene of a classical garden with two applied multicoloured gold cherubs resting on urns appearing to strike the hours and quarters on bells, applied multicoloured gold automaton below of a seated man playing the lyre and a cherub striking the triangle in a landscape. The master mark ''IE'' punched on the inside of the back cover is that of the case maker who made many cases for Piguet & Meylan in Geneva.
Brand: Attributable to Piguet et Meylan, Switzerland
Model: Le Jardin de Cupidon
Year: Circa 1820
Case: 11795
Movement: 11795
Caliber: 23''', gilt, going barrels for the going and musical trains, cylinder escapement, brass three-arm balance, the balance, brass escape wheel and third wheel jeweled, flat balance spring, index regulator, sur plateau musical movement with 29 tuned steel teeth playing on both sides of the pinned disc, silence/musique lever protruding from under the cuvette.
Diameter: 58 mm.
Signature: Cuvette with apocryphal signature and number 20112, movement and case punch numbered 11795.
Grading System: AAA (Excellent)
Case: 3 (Good)
Dial: 3-33-04 (Good , Restored , HANDS Later)
Movement: 3* (Good , Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense)
HKD: 348,000 - 520,000
USD: 44,300 - 67,000
EUR: 40,800 - 62,000
Size: 58 mm.
Signature: Cuvette with apocryphal signature and number 20112, movement and case punch numbered 11795.
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ATTRIBUTABLE TO PIGUET ET MEYLAN, SWITZERLAND, LE JARDIN DE CUPIDON, QUARTER-REPEATING, MUSICAL AND FOUR AUTOMATON ACTIONS, PLAYING MUSIC ON THE HOUR OR AT WILL, 18K PINK GOLD
A fine, 18k pink gold, manual wind open face pocket watch with four automaton actions, playing music on the hour or at will. Painted on enamel scene of a classical garden with two applied multicoloured gold cherubs resting on urns appearing to strike the hours and quarters on bells, applied multicoloured gold automaton below of a seated man playing the lyre and a cherub striking the triangle in a landscape. The master mark ''IE'' punched on the inside of the back cover is that of the case maker who made many cases for Piguet & Meylan in Geneva.
Brand: Attributable to Piguet et Meylan, Switzerland
Model: Le Jardin de Cupidon
Year: Circa 1820
Case: 11795
Movement: 11795
Caliber: 23''', gilt, going barrels for the going and musical trains, cylinder escapement, brass three-arm balance, the balance, brass escape wheel and third wheel jeweled, flat balance spring, index regulator, sur plateau musical movement with 29 tuned steel teeth playing on both sides of the pinned disc, silence/musique lever protruding from under the cuvette.
Diameter: 58 mm.
Signature: Cuvette with apocryphal signature and number 20112, movement and case punch numbered 11795.
Grading System: AAA (Excellent)
Case: 3 (Good)
Dial: 3-33-04 (Good , Restored , HANDS Later)
Movement: 3* (Good , Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense)
HKD: 348,000 - 520,000
USD: 44,300 - 67,000
EUR: 40,800 - 62,000
Size: 58 mm.
Signature: Cuvette with apocryphal signature and number 20112, movement and case punch numbered 11795.
