66,700 CHF
France. Made circa 1580. Fine and very rare miniature striking gilt brass weight driven wall clock with alarm. Silver chapter ring withengraved Roman numerals and half-hour arrow divisions. Single gilt brass hand. Three-bar in line with addi-tionalbars at right angles for mounting the gilt count-wheel and alarm-setting disc. Part gilt trains with serratedsteel drums for the ropes. Three-wheel going train with verge escapement, single-arm brass balance with sprunglever to lift the verge and disengage the pallets for setting to time. Simple C scroll cock. Striking train with fourblade solid fly, the count-wheel with internal hour division slots and driven off the great wheel by a transversemounted wheel with turret pinion. Alarm train with constantly engaged hour disc calibrated with Arabic numer-als,with friction-tight setting disc with a detent for releasing the transverse mounted locking arm. Crown wheeland verge controller with double-ended hammer. Both trains striking on a cloche bell.Dim. 150 x 75 x 75 mm. Notes The present lot was previously sold by Antiquorum, The Art of French Horology, Nov. 14, 1993, lot 6. A very similar clock was formerly in the Paul Garnier Collection, and is now in the Louvre, Paris, Inv. No. 7017. Literature: G. Migeon, “Collection Paul Garnier”, Paris, 1917, pp. 87-88, pl. XLIII, and Tardy “La Pendule Francaise”, Vol.I, Paris, 1981, p 49. Three examples of miniature wall clocks (including this lot) and an empty case are known to have survi
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-05-15
