52,900 CHF
Hercules between Virtue and VicePierre Combret à Lyon, circa 1620. Exceptional and very rare, silver and gilt metal, single-hand oval alarm watch with a concealed dial. 34 x 42 mm, oval, gilt brass full plate, vase pillars, fusee and gut line, short four-wheel train, verge escapement, two-arm brass circular foliot, elongated small pinned cock pierced and engraved withflowers, wheel and click set-up cock and alarm stop-work cock similarly decorated, alarm from a fixed engraved barrel with two-wheel train with large brass pinion on the second wheel, striking on an oval bell.Signed on the back plate.Dim. 76 x 46 mm. Published in the Sandberg book, pages 44-45. Notes It is rare to find a watch from the beginning of the seventeenth century in such excellent condition.Pierre Combret II à Lyon (1581-1622)The son of Pierre, he was born in Egleton. He made oval, octagonal, and cruciform watches and also produced fine pendant watches designed as shellfish or tulips.Huaud Frères, Jean Pierre et AmiThe best known and most prolific enamel painters of their day, they came from a family of goldsmiths in Châtellerault, France. Pierre Huaut I (1612 -1682) finished his apprenticeship as a goldsmith, and possibly as an enamel painter, in 1630. His three sons became enamel painters also. Pierre II (1647 - c.1698) was apprenticed to his father. In 1685/6 he went to Berlin, probably along with his younger brothers, but unlike his brothers, after a brief return home, he went back to Berlin in
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2001-03-31
