43,700 CHF
Angely A Monpelier, probably Etienne Angely, French, circa 1650. Very fine and rare, small, 20 ct. gold and agate, single-hand, lady's pendant watch with concealed dial. 24.5 mm o, gilt brass full plate, turned baluster pillars, fusee and gut-line, short four-wheel train with five-leaf pinions, verge escapement, steel two-arm circular foliot, symmetrically elongated pierced and engraved cock secured by a screw, worm and wheel mainspring setting.Signed on the movement.Diam. 30 mm. Published in the Sandberg book, pages 60-61. Notes A strikingly similar agate watch, with the same type of dial signed Gédéon de Combes, Paris, is in the Musée International d'Horlogerie in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Inv. I-487, illustrated in their catalogue under No. 114.Provenance: previously in the collection of the King of Naples.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2001-03-31