St. George & The Dragon
A GOLD QUARTER REPEATING MUSICAL AUTOMATON WATCH PLAYING ON THE HOUR OR ON🎀 DEMAND, THE SCENE DEPICTING ST. GEO🅺RGE SLAYING THE DRAGON CIRCA 1840 [ 瑞士製黃金二問聖喬治屠龍活動人偶懷錶,正點或手動操作音樂報時,年份約1840]
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November 12, 03:51 PM GMT
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15,000 - 25,000 CHF
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St. George & The Dragon
Swiss
A GOLD QUARTER REPEATING MUSICAL AUTOMATON WATCH𓄧 PLAYING ON THE HOUR OR ON DEMAND, THE SCENE DEPICTING ST. GEORGE SLAYING THE DRAG🎶ON
CIRCA 1840
[ 瑞士製黃金二問聖喬治屠龍活動人偶懷錶,正點或手動操作音樂報時,年份約1840]
• Movement: gilded, separate barrels for time and music trains, watch movement with inverted cylinder escapement, plain three-arm balance • sur plateau musical movement with 20 tuned teeth plucked by pins on both sides of a revol🥂ving disc, large barrel and decoratively engraved cap, music and automata activated on the hour or&nbs๊p;on demand
• Dial: eccentric cream enamel time dial, Arabic numerals, outer pearled minute 🎐ring, blued steel moon hands, automaton scene beneath depicting St George slaying the dragon, his right arm raising and lowering his sword, the dragon at this feet, to the left a niche with blued steel background within which a nude lady with drapery appears
• Case: gold, milled bezels a⛄nd band, plain polished back, slide to activate music at 2 o'clock, gilt-metal dust cap, threeಞ apertures for winding trains and hand-setting
diameter 58.5mm
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