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18K Multicolor Gold Repousse Quarter Hour French Repeater Pocket Watch CA1785
Estimated price for orientation: 5 600 $
Category: Antique
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Description Age: Antique (pre 1920) Movement: Mechanical: Hand-winding Case Material: Yellow Gold Country Made: France Closure: Open Face Serial Number: 263 Features: Roman Numerals, Black Aribic 5-minute Numerals, Includes Key, Quarter Hour Repeater, Keywind/Keyset Movement, Verge Fusee
Exceptional 18K Multicolor Gold Repousse Quarter Hour French Repeater Pocket Watch
France; Alex Patry; Unisex; Serial #263; Circa: 1785
Complications: Early verge and ¼-hr. repeater.
CASE: The multi-color (yellow, rose, green) 18K gold swing-out case features an open face and repousse (green, red & yellow gold) decorations.
DIAL: This white porcelain dial displays Roman numerals, poker hands, and is signed “Alex Patry.”
MOVT: This key-set #263 movement with verge/fusee escapement is gilt, with a full plate layout, and is signed.
C 2 (The case is in perfect condition.)
D 3 (The dial is in very good condition.)
M 3 (The movement is in very good condition.)
R 8 ½ (Rarity on a scale of #1 being very common to #10 being extremely rare.)
Experts Opinion: Quarter Hour hour dumb repeater, “case striker”. Superb dial case and movement from 230 years ago. Comes with keys. AI-171-27
Quarter Repeater
The quarter repeater strikes the number of hours, and then the number of quarter hours since the last hour. The mechanism uses 2 chimes of different tones. The low tone usually signals the hours, and the high tone the quarter hours. As an example, if the time is 2:45, the quarter repeater sounds 2 low tones and after a short pause 3 high ones: "dong, dong, ding, ding, ding". Alternatively, some use a pair of tones to distinguish the quarter hours: "dong, dong, ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong"
Dumb "Case Striker" Repeater is the same as Quarter Repeater except it strikes the case of the watch and does not chime in the same way. Key-wind/Key-set Movements
The very first pocket watches up until the third quarter of the 19th century had key-wind and key-set movements. A watch key was necessary to wind the watch and to set the time. This was usually done by opening the case back and putting the key over the winding-arbor (which was set over the watch's winding-wheel, to wind the mainspring) or by putting the key onto the setting-arbor, which was connected with the minute-wheel and turned the hands. Some watches of this period had the setting-arbor at the front of the watch, so that removing the crystal and bezel was necessary to set the time. This watch includes a reproduction of the correct size key, it is not the original. Verge Fusee Escapement
Used in antique spring-powered mechanical watches and clocks, a fusee is a cone-shaped pulley with a helical groove around it, wound with a cord or chain which is attached to the mainspring barrel. Fusees were used from the 15th century to the early 20th century to improve timekeeping by equalizing the uneven pull of the mainspring as it ran down. The mainspring is coiled around a stationary axle (arbor), inside a cylindrical box, the barrel. The force of the spring turns the barrel. CUSTOMER SERVICE: Phone 1-800-424-5353 Contact: Rick Gilbert Hours:9 - 5 EST, Monday - Friday Address: eAshland_net Sarasota Arts & Antique Center 640 South Washington Blvd, Suite 200 Sarasota, FL 34236 INTERNATIONAL CUSTOMERS: Import duties, taxes and charges are not included in the item price or shipping charges. These charg
Description
| Age: | Antique (pre 1920) | Movement: | Mechanical: Hand-winding |
| Case Material: | Yellow Gold | Country Made: | France |
| Closure: | Open Face | Serial Number: | 263 |
| Features: | Roman Numerals, Black Aribic 5-minute Numerals, Includes Key, Quarter Hour Repeater, Keywind/Keyset Movement, Verge Fusee |
France; Alex Patry; Unisex; Serial #263; Circa: 1785
Complications: Early verge and ¼-hr. repeater.
CASE: The multi-color (yellow, rose, green) 18K gold swing-out case features an open face and repousse (green, red & yellow gold) decorations.
DIAL: This white porcelain dial displays Roman numerals, poker hands, and is signed “Alex Patry.”
MOVT: This key-set #263 movement with verge/fusee escapement is gilt, with a full plate layout, and is signed.
C 2 (The case is in perfect condition.)
D 3 (The dial is in very good condition.)
M 3 (The movement is in very good condition.)
R 8 ½ (Rarity on a scale of #1 being very common to #10 being extremely rare.)
Experts Opinion: Quarter Hour hour dumb repeater, “case striker”. Superb dial case and movement from 230 years ago. Comes with keys. AI-171-27
Quarter Repeater
The quarter repeater strikes the number of hours, and then the number of quarter hours since the last hour. The mechanism uses 2 chimes of different tones. The low tone usually signals the hours, and the high tone the quarter hours. As an example, if the time is 2:45, the quarter repeater sounds 2 low tones and after a short pause 3 high ones: "dong, dong, ding, ding, ding". Alternatively, some use a pair of tones to distinguish the quarter hours: "dong, dong, ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong"
Dumb "Case Striker" Repeater is the same as Quarter Repeater except it strikes the case of the watch and does not chime in the same way. Key-wind/Key-set Movements
The very first pocket watches up until the third quarter of the 19th century had key-wind and key-set movements. A watch key was necessary to wind the watch and to set the time. This was usually done by opening the case back and putting the key over the winding-arbor (which was set over the watch's winding-wheel, to wind the mainspring) or by putting the key onto the setting-arbor, which was connected with the minute-wheel and turned the hands. Some watches of this period had the setting-arbor at the front of the watch, so that removing the crystal and bezel was necessary to set the time. This watch includes a reproduction of the correct size key, it is not the original. Verge Fusee Escapement
Used in antique spring-powered mechanical watches and clocks, a fusee is a cone-shaped pulley with a helical groove around it, wound with a cord or chain which is attached to the mainspring barrel. Fusees were used from the 15th century to the early 20th century to improve timekeeping by equalizing the uneven pull of the mainspring as it ran down. The mainspring is coiled around a stationary axle (arbor), inside a cylindrical box, the barrel. The force of the spring turns the barrel. CUSTOMER SERVICE: Phone 1-800-424-5353 Contact: Rick Gilbert Hours:9 - 5 EST, Monday - Friday Address: eAshland_net Sarasota Arts & Antique Center 640 South Washington Blvd, Suite 200 Sarasota, FL 34236 INTERNATIONAL CUSTOMERS: Import duties, taxes and charges are not included in the item price or shipping charges. These charg