20,125 CHF
Estienne Hubert A Rouen, circa 1660. A very fine engraved silver pair-cased watch. Outer: Double body with silver frame, leather covered with piquet pinwork decoration. haler: Double body, the split bezel and band engraved with acanthes and leaf pattern foliage, the back with a finely executed panel of summer flowers in low relief on a hatched ground, the winding shutter formed as an engraved rose, loose ring pendant. Gilt full plate with turned vase pillars, fusee with gut, three wheel train with verge escapement, plain two-arm steel balance without spring, oval pattern pierced and florally engraved cock secured by a screw, worm and wheel set up with pierced blued-steel brackets and silver indicator disc. Signed on the movement. In very good condition. Diam. 55 mm. Notes Estienne Hubert for biographical details please refer to the previous lot. Literature: Illustrated Clutton & Daniels, Watches, figs. 92 A - C. Cammerer Cuss, Watches, plate 23. Exhibited: Antiquarian Horological Society 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Science Museum, May - August 1964, exhibit No. 63. The cases of both this watch and the previous lot are particularly well engraved with very similar designs incorporating summer flowers composed in an open and flowing manner. They seem to be taken from one of the anonymous XVIIth century designs for watchmakers, reproduced by E. Gelis : L'Horlogerie Ancienne, Paris 1949, pl. 13.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1993-11-14
