31,250 CHF
JAQUET DROZ – EIGHT TUNE MUSICAL & QUARTER-STRIKING BRACKET CLOCK Pierre Jaquet Droz, a la Chaux-de-Fonds. Made circa 1780. Extremely fine and very rare, Louis XVI, wood and ormolu, 8-day going, hour and quarter-striking on two bells, musical bracket clock with cylinder musical mechanism playing on ten bells with nineteen hammers, playing a selection of eight tunes with sequential consecutive movements on the hour or at will. Accompanied by the original wall bracket. Waisted form, Louis XVI gilt bronze architectural and foliate mounts, swagged urn and fl ower fi nial, double hairy paw feet, sides with pierced brass grilles hinged to access the musical movement, the gilt bronze door cast with foliate decoration at the edge and at the lower edge threedimensional trophy of science and music. White enamel, convex, bold radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, outermost Arabic fi ve-minute numerals. Fine pierced and engraved gilt brass hands. 13 x 15 cm., horizontally rectangular, brass plates, four pillars, going barrels for both trains, verge escapement, steel rod pendulum with circular brass bob, striking the hours and quarters on two bells with two hammers, rods and levers for hourly musical activation on the backplate. Musical bell movement: rectangular brass plates, massive fusee and chain, fl y governor, 14 cm pinned brass cylinder, playing a selection of eight tunes on ten bells with nineteen hammers, tune selection and start/stop levers for the music inside the fron
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2012-11-11
