36,800 CHF
The Tulip Ayme Noel à Genève, circa 1660. Fine and very rare gilt brass pre-balance spring, single hand form watch designed as a tulip. Four-body, three tulip-like petals hinged to a symmetrical frame of triangular crosssection, gilt brass pendantshaped as a flower stem. Silver, Roman numerals with half-hour divisions, center engraved with a view of acity, whole fixed to florally engraved gilt brass plate. Blued steel "tulip" hand. egg-shaped, 28 x 22 mm, fullplate gilt brass, vase pillars, fusee and gut, short 3-wheel train, verge escapement, circular brass foliot, irregularcock fastened by a screw, ratchet-wheel mainspring set-up, pierced and engraved en suite to the cock.Signed on the back plate.Dim. 53 x 32 mm. Notes Noel Ayme (1650 – 1681) Master horologist and lapidary, his signature is found on a notarized act; he received a loan of 4500 florins from Jaques I Joly, at 5% interest. His watches are very rare. One, is reported to have been in the collection of Lady Fellowes.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-04-24
