11,500 CHF
Adamson & Millenet, Paris, circa 1770. Very fine 20K gold and enamel center se-conds, double-dial quarter-repeating à toc watch with calendar. Two-body, Louis XV, glazed on both sides, con-cealedhinge, bezel in translucent Imperial blue andwhite champlevé enamel. White enamel, radial Arabicnumerals, outer minute divisions with five-minute Arabicmarkers. Gold "Louis XV" hands. Back (restored): white enamel withmonth ring in the innermost, days of the week and date on the outermost, setting aperture. Gold pierced hands. 35 mm, hinged, frosted gilt full-plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, cylinder escapement, brass bal-ancewith flat balance spring, continental cock, bate levée, repeating on the band by depressing the pendant.Signed on the dial and bate levee ring.Diam. 43 mm Notes A rare watch featuring a separate calendar dial and early application of center seconds, which became popular in France only during the 19th century. Gustave-Adolophe Adamson (1749 - after 1813) Son of Godfried, clockmaker. Married Julie-Aldegonde Lissacq. Received as Master 5 May 1788. Valet de Chambre-Horloger Ordinaire du Roi on the reversion of Antoine Pelletier, after Jean Fol's resignation (1783), resigning himself in favor of Nicolas Lamy-Gouge (1778). Established at Place Dauphine (1773), Court of the Monks at the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés (1775), passage de Valois. Active before 1773, date of his conversion to the Catholic faith. Spe-cialized in watches, he was asso
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-04-24
