Moricand
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UhrwerkAutomatisch
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Baujahr1970
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Losnummer145
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Durchmesser56mm
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Standort
Beschreibung
MORICAND - MUSICAL AND REPEATING
POCKET WATCH GOLD
Ch.t Moricand a Genève, No. 48834. Made circa 1790.
Very fine and rare, 18K gold, quarter-repeating, musical pocket
watch with music playing on the hour or at will.
Four-body, "Empire", engine-turned with polished borders,
reeded band, bolt at 2 o`clock to lock the repeat and at 6 for the
music. Hinged gilt brass cuvette with apertures for winding and
hand-setting.
Gold with white enamel cartouches for the Arabic numerals,
outer white enamel minute track, engine-turned center. Blued
steel Breguet hands
51 mm.(22```), gilt brass two-train, with standing barrel for
the going train, cylinder escapement, plain three-arm balance,
flat balance spring, polished steel endplate, index regulator,
repeating on gongs activated by depressing the pendant. Sur
plateau musical movement with 29 tuned steel vibrating blades
acting on both sides of the pinned disc, music/silence lever at the
edge of the cuvette beneath the back cover