4,560 CHF
Martinot a Paris. Made circa 1690. Fine and rare, Louis XIV, gilt brass, single-hand oignon watch. Two-body, “oignon”, the back chased and engraved with inhabited foliage and strapwork, foliate strapwork border and bezel, square hinge, loose ring pendant. White enamel with radial large black painted Roman numerals, inner quarter-hour ring, winding aperture at 2. Blued steel tulip hand. 47 mm, frosted gilt full plate, divided Egyptian pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, four-arm steel balance, short balance spring, pierced and chased cock decorated with foliage, primitive-type regulator. Movement signed. Diam. 59 mm. Notes Literature: La Montre Française, Adolphe Chapiro, Les Editions de l’Amateur, 1991, p. 78, fig 178.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-11-16
