12,650 CHF
Robin, Horloger du Roy à Paris, No. 1/907, completed in 1793, sold after his death. Rare and important silver dual calendar watch with equation of time. Three body, "forme collier", with gold rims, reeded band and engine-turned back. Gilt brass hinged cuvette. White enamel, eccentric, with Breguet numerals, subsidiary dials for the date and months. Blued-steel Breguet hands, sun hand for the equation of time. Gilt brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee with chain, virgule escapement, plain brass three-arm balance and flat balance spring. Calendar and equation work with kidney and racks, set beneath the dial on the front plate. Signed on the dial, case and movement. In good condition. Diam. 51 mm. Notes The movement of this watch was originally designed to be hinged in the case as was usual in most XVIIIth. century watches. The registration mark, punched in 1793 at the request of the silversmith community and the title on the dial: "Horloger du Roy" would confirm that it %vas cased by Robin in 1793, during the Constitutional Monarchy. The later mandatory dut), marks for the period from 1809 to 1819 indicate that the watch vvas in fact not sold until much later, after the death of Robert Robin (1799) and the restoration of the Monarchy, following the fall of Napoleon. Following the French Revolution, many of the laves and institutions associated with the monarchy were withdrawn or annulled, and in several cases, not immediately replaced. One such was the off
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1993-11-14
