Gutkaes, Dresden

A RARE GOLD QUARTER REPEATING AND QUARTER STRIKING CLOCK WATCH CIRCA 1820, NO. 9

• Movement: gilded, cylinder escapement, steel escape wheel, plain three-arm balance with parachute and compensation curbs, separate hanging barrels for going and strike trains, polished steel repeating and striking rack mounted above open-work gilded bridges, coiled gongs
• Dial: white enamel dial, Arabic numerals, outer minute ring, blued steel moon hands, signed Gutkaes
• Case: pink gold, the back with radiating sunburst engine-turning, oval cartouche engraved with monogram 'K', milled bezel and band, gilt-metal hinged cuvette with three apertures for winding going and strike trains and adjusting hands, the cuvette's edge engraved for strike/silent and grande/petite sonnerie with corresponding levers beneath, pendant with repeating button, cuvette signed, numbered and dated Gutkaes in Dresden, 1820, no.9, case back with indistinct maker's mark
diameter 62mm

Provenance:
Sotheby's New York, Fine Watches from the Atwood Collection, 11 December 1986, lot 160