5,192 CHF
“Silver Oignon Alarm” Meyrenne, (Geneva). Made circa 1700. Very fine, silver pair-cased single-hand watch with alarm. Outer: two-body, the back pierced, chased and engraved with inhabited foliage divided by four profile busts perhaps symbolic of the seasons, the bezel pierced and engraved with inhabited foliage intersected by floral cartouches. Inner: two-body, "bassine" with deep back, the band pierced and engraved with inhabited foliage, cartouche flanked by rampant beasts, winding apertures in the back, split-bezel with engraved decoration. Silver, radial champlevé Roman numerals, inner quarter-hour ring, central silver alarm disc with Arabic numerals and gilt arrowhead pointer indicating the hours, blued steel "fleur-delys" alarm setting hand. 39 mm, hinged, gilt full plate with divided Egyptian pillars, unusual blued steel decorated catchspring, fusee and chain, train with 6-leaf pinions, verge escapement with brass balance, single-footed winged cock, one half cut-away to expose the balance, pierced and engraved scrollwork backplate furniture, alarm with foliate pierced and engraved fixed barrel and steel train, striking a pork-pie bell with a double-ended hammer. Movement signed. Diam. 58 mm. To be sold without reserve Notes Alexandre Meyrenne (also Meyranne or Meyronne) was a French Protestant from Grenoble who, after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685), went first to Lancy, near Geneva, and subsequently to Neuchâtel, around 1687. The son of a watchm
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-04-02
