204,250 CHF
Jean Baptiste Duboule (Geneva), the enamel attributed to Peter Huaud le pere, circa 1665. Important and very fine gold and enamel pendant watch. Off-white enamel on gold with Roman numerals and half-hour divisions, the centre decorated with a ring of flowers on a green ground matching the sides. Single balluster-turned gold hand. Gilt-brass full plate with turned balluster pillars, fusee now with chain, three wheel train with verge escapement, plain two-arm steel balance without spring. Irregular oval form cock pierced and engraved with foliage. Worm-and-wheel set-up with delicately pierced blued-steel brackets (one partially deficient ) and silver regulator disk. Signed on the movement. In very good condition. Diam. 32mm. Notes A similar watch is illustrated plate 2 in colour and plate 20 in black and white in "La Montre Suisse" by Alfred Chapuis. Jean-Baptiste Duboule, born 1615, died 1694, was the second son of Martin Duboule, the maker of the oldest known surviving watch from Geneva. His date of birth makes him a close contemporary of Pierre Huaud le père (born 1612, died 1680), and their collaboration would be natural. Only one watch case signed P. Huaud pinxit à Genève and definitely attributable to the father is presently known, (Dr. E. Gschwind Foundation, see S. Bull/F. Sturm, Geneva Watches, Basel 1978, exhibition catalogue for the Musée d'Horlogerie, item 7), but the technique and colours employed are remarkably similar to those of the watch now offered fo
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1992-10-17
