Important Collectors Watches, Pocket Watches & Clocks · 29 March 2009

Eight-Tune Triple-Mechanism Musical Clock Pierre Jaquet Droz, a la Chaux-de-Fonds

Eight-Tune Triple-Mechanism Musical Clock Pierre Jaquet Droz, a la Chaux-de-Fonds. Made circa 1770. A magnificent and extremely fine and rare, Louis XV, mahogany and ormolu, 8-day going, hour and quarter-striking on two bells, musical bracket clock with two pipe organs and a cylinder musical mechanism playing on eleven bells with nineteen hammers, playing a selection of eight tunes with sequential consecutive movements on the hour or at will.

Lot

Antiquorum, March 2009

Hammer result

CHF 126,000

about $110,188 at today's rate

Beat the high estimate by 58%
Low estimate CHF 40,000
High estimate CHF 80,000
In USD $34,980 to $69,961

The lot

Auction house

Antiquorum

Sale

Important Collectors Watches, Pocket Watches & Clocks

Date

29 March 2009

Lot number

297

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