73,600 CHF
The War Between the Gods and the Titans Ferdinando Garret, London, circa 1620. Highly important, extremely rare gilt brass pre-balance spring, single-hand hour-striking clockwatch with alarm. Two-body, oval, "fermée type", the front engraved with a scene depicting Zeus (Jupiter) fighting the Titans after Joachim Wtewael’s"The Battle Between the Gods and the Titans" painted in 1600, the back with a group of people, inside the front cover a street scene,presumably of London, band pierced and engraved with stylized foliage. Silver hour ring with half-hour divisions, inner gilt brassalarm disc with fleur-de-lis hour pointer, blued steel alarm-setting hand, center with inhabited foliage, hounds chasing after a fox anda hare, outer with en suite decoration. Oval, 49 x 43 mm, oval, full plate decorated on the periphery with stylized foliage, fusee andgut, verge escapement with circular steel foliot and small irregular pinned cock, pierced and engraved barrels for the striking and alarm,with finely pierced and engraved covers for the stopwork matching decoration of the cock, alarm striking with both sides of Notes This is one of the earliest known complicated English watches. Watches by Garret are extremely rare. Brian Loomes, in his "Early Clockmakers of Great Britain" (London, 1981), states that very few watches by him are known. The present watch is the most complicated. At an 1849 meeting of the London Archeological Institute, Octavius Morgan showed a watch by Garret
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-04-24
