Johann Martin in Augsporg

Johann Martin in Augsporg, circa 1675. "La Petite Sainte Famine" Extremely fine and rare 22K gold and enamel diamond-set pre-balance spring watch in the form of a heart. Double body, designed as a heart, bezel and pendant set with rose-cut diamonds, fully enamelled, bezel and band with floral decoration, the back with a scene depicting the Madonna and Child with St. Elizabeth and the infant St. John the Baptist, after the painting by Giulio Romano, now in the Louvre, and an enamel inside with black and pink foliage against a white ground. Enamelled gold, decorated en suite with Roman numerals on a white enamel chapter ring. Blued steel single hand. Hinged shaped gilt brass full plate with turned baluster pillars, fusee with gut line, short train, verge escapement, plain two-arm steel balance without spring. Pierced floral oval cock secured by a screw, worm-and-wheel set-up with fine pierced blued steed elaborate brackets. Dim. 42 x 33 mm. Notes Giulio Pippi, known as Giulio Romano (1499-1556). Italian painter and architect, born in Rome, Giulio Romano was pupil to Raphael. He was the architect and decorator of the Palazzo del T6, in Mantua, where he died. The painting in the Louvre which inspired the enameller of the watch was for a long ti me attributed to Raphael. Johann Martin, Augsburg. Born in Frankfurt in 1642, married the daughter of the watchmaker Elias Weckerlin in May 1669. Master in June 1669. Died in Augsburg in 1721. Johann Martin is well known for his pr Read more…