Henry Capt for Frères Bordier Large pocket watch, quarter-repeater, music playing at will; 18K pink gold

18K pink gold, open-face, key-winding, round-shaped, “Directoire”, large pocket watch, with one horological complication and music:

• Quarter-repeater on two steel gongs by two hammers (activated by depressing the pendant)

• Musical movement with a melody on a pinned drum with eight blued steel tuned blades mounted in two stacks of four set between the plates

Case-back polished; fluted case-band.

White enamel dial with suspended “Breguet” numerals; pink gold “Spade” hands.

21’’’, full plate, gilded brass, partly engraved with foliate decoration, going barrel, cylinder escapement, monometallic balance with three arms (probably in gold) and blued steel flat hairspring, pierced and engraved gilded continental “Directoire” one-foot cock, index regulator; repeater work.
Model: made for Frères Bordier, Geneva, No. 66 118

Caliber: 21’’’, cylinder escapement

Accesories:

Signed: casing-ring (by the maker) and cuvette (dome) (by the retailer)

Low Est HKD: 32000 High Est HKD: 40000

Low Est CHF: 4000 High Est CHF: 5000

Low Est USD: 4200 High Est USD: 5300