36,800 CHF
David Bouquet At London, circa 1640. Very fine and rare silver and rock crystal single-hand lobed pendant watch. Silver, champlevé radial Roman chapters with half-hour markers and inner quarter-hour ring, the centre engraved with a town scene, a tree and fisherman in the foreground, engraved gilt border. Elaborate gilt brass hands. 24 mm o, hinged, gilt brass full plate, narrow Egyptian pillars, fusee and gut-line for the going train, verge escapement,two-arm iron circular foliot, elongated silver cock, pierced and engraved with asymmetrical floral decoration and a figure of a winged cherub, worm and wheel set-up with silver plate.Signed on the back plate.Diam 29 mm. Published in the Sandberg book, pages 72-73. Notes Bouquet Davidworking from circa 1630, was a founding member of the Clockmakers' Company in 1632, along with David Ramsey, Edward East, Simon Bartram and George Smith etc.Another very fine watch in enamelled case made by Bouquet is in the British Museum, and another, in the shape of a cross, is in the Louvre.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2001-03-31
