66,700 CHF
Perpetual Calendar Remontoir d'Egalité LyreJean Hoff, Francfort, made for the French market, circa 1790. Exceptionally fine and extremely rare and unusual, month going, center-seconds, single barrel, Dutch hour- and half hour-striking, lyre-shaped table clock with perpetual calendar of unusual construction and 30-minute remontoir. Lyre-shaped gilt wood frame chased with leaves, rosette at the bottom, garlands and tassels at the top, the whole on an oval gilt shaped base, the top surmounted by a sun. White enamel ring with upright radial Roman numerals, gold paillon outer minute ring with five-minute/seconds Arabic markers. Gilt skeletonized hands with sunburst tips. Three concentric calendar rings for months with corresponding Zodiac signs, date and days of the weeks with corresponding planets. Circular, 15.5 cm, skeletonized brass, large single barrel driving the striking and the remontoir, while also advancing the calendar, pin-wheel escapement, knife-edge suspension, brass pendulum with large ring bob working behind the dial, the top pointing the date, count wheel with double divisions, two bells, calendar driven via three concentric shafts with perpetual transmission controlled by four-uneven-slot wheel, striking the hours on a large bell and on the half-hour striking the hours on a small bell.Signed on dial and movement. Dim. Height 50 cm. Notes A very special and unusual clock. The combination of a lyre clock with a perpetual calendar is rare, and the addition of
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-04-12
