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McGonigle
Ref. McGJC15
Ceol Minute Repeater
A highly customized, impressive, and extremely rare white gold minute repeating wristwatch with openworked dial and presentation box
估價
$50,000–100,000
製造商
McGonigle
年份
Circa 2024, Switzerland / Ireland
型號
McGJC15
錶殼號碼
109
型號名稱
Ceol Minute Repeater
材料
18K white gold
機芯
Manual, cal. McGJC15, 27 jewels
錶帶/ 錶鏈
Calf leather
錶扣
18K white gold McGonigle deployant clasp
尺寸
41mm Diameter
簽名
Case, dial, movement, and clasp signed
配件
Accompanied by travel pouch, additional calf-skin strap, and presentation box
完整圖錄內容
GOOD TO KNOW
• A highly customized McGonigle minute repeater
• With engraved midcase and openworked dial
• Consigned by the original owner
Introduced in 2016 and produced in an exceedingly small series of only six examples, the Ceol, Irish for “music”, represents the most mechanically ambitious creation of independent Irish watchmakers John and Stephen McGonigle. Its manually wound and water-resistant minute-repeating calibre, developed from a Christophe Claret ébauche and extensively reworked with bespoke bridges, comprises 283 components and 27 jewels, beating at 18,000 vibrations per hour while offering a power reserve of approximately 52 hours. Activated through the slide at 9 o’clock, the mechanism audibly strikes the hours, quarter-hours and minutes on demand, allowing the watch to quite literally “sing” the time.
The present watch is a highly personalized interpretation commissioned directly by its original owner. Departing from the Ceol’s customary enamel dial, the entirely open-worked display was requested to expose the repeating mechanism in operation, framed by a grey chapter ring and polished blued-steel hands with hand-beveled white-gold tips. According to the original owner, the reverse-side “plucking” decoration was extended onto the untreated German-silver bridges beneath the dial and across the substantial white-gold case band. The engraving was executed by renowned artisan Michèle Rothen, whose deeply textured surfaces contrast dramatically with the mirror-polished bezel and lugs. The result transforms the usually concealed mechanics of the Ceol into the visual centerpiece of the watch.
Its Irish identity continues through the engraved movement and specially commissioned presentation box. In place of the bird normally associated with the Ceol, the original owner requested a falcon in reference to Irish poet W. B. Yeats’s The Second Coming and its celebrated image of the falcon circling within a widening gyre. The accompanying box was handcrafted in County Mayo by master woodworker Neville O’Farrell: a walnut structure faced with ancient Irish bog-oak veneer, together with a removable resonating sound box designed to amplify the repeater’s chime. Combining Irish mythology, poetry, decorative art and traditional Swiss haute horlogerie, the present Ceol is a deeply personal expression of McGonigle’s singular watchmaking language.
• A highly customized McGonigle minute repeater
• With engraved midcase and openworked dial
• Consigned by the original owner
Introduced in 2016 and produced in an exceedingly small series of only six examples, the Ceol, Irish for “music”, represents the most mechanically ambitious creation of independent Irish watchmakers John and Stephen McGonigle. Its manually wound and water-resistant minute-repeating calibre, developed from a Christophe Claret ébauche and extensively reworked with bespoke bridges, comprises 283 components and 27 jewels, beating at 18,000 vibrations per hour while offering a power reserve of approximately 52 hours. Activated through the slide at 9 o’clock, the mechanism audibly strikes the hours, quarter-hours and minutes on demand, allowing the watch to quite literally “sing” the time.
The present watch is a highly personalized interpretation commissioned directly by its original owner. Departing from the Ceol’s customary enamel dial, the entirely open-worked display was requested to expose the repeating mechanism in operation, framed by a grey chapter ring and polished blued-steel hands with hand-beveled white-gold tips. According to the original owner, the reverse-side “plucking” decoration was extended onto the untreated German-silver bridges beneath the dial and across the substantial white-gold case band. The engraving was executed by renowned artisan Michèle Rothen, whose deeply textured surfaces contrast dramatically with the mirror-polished bezel and lugs. The result transforms the usually concealed mechanics of the Ceol into the visual centerpiece of the watch.
Its Irish identity continues through the engraved movement and specially commissioned presentation box. In place of the bird normally associated with the Ceol, the original owner requested a falcon in reference to Irish poet W. B. Yeats’s The Second Coming and its celebrated image of the falcon circling within a widening gyre. The accompanying box was handcrafted in County Mayo by master woodworker Neville O’Farrell: a walnut structure faced with ancient Irish bog-oak veneer, together with a removable resonating sound box designed to amplify the repeater’s chime. Combining Irish mythology, poetry, decorative art and traditional Swiss haute horlogerie, the present Ceol is a deeply personal expression of McGonigle’s singular watchmaking language.