146,750 CHF
“Robin Escapement” Robin, H(orlo)ger du Roy. Made circa 1790. Exceptionally fine and equally rare, gilt brass and enamel “pendule de campagne” 8-day going portable precision clock with hour and half-hour striking, calendar, Robin detent lever escapement and Coteau dial. Gilt brass, bell-top, hinged handle, the sides set with fine rectangular enamel panels decorated with opaque turquoise blue with gold and green enamel foliage and white and red enamel “pearl” swags, the front door with locking pin to the side and set with an enameled panel en suite with a central oval white signature cartouche, glazed back door, raised on block feet. Convex white enamel by Coteau, dated on the counter-enamel “1783”, radial Roman numerals, gold dot markers, outer minute track and Arabic five minute numerals, inner date chapter intersected by gold dots. Fine pierced gilt brass “arrow & fleur-de-lys” hour and minute hands, blued steel calendar hand. 131 x 94 mm., rectangular, gilt brass, four turned pillars, going train with fusee and chain, maintaining power, striking train with spring barrel, Robin’s detent lever escapement mounted on the backplate, brass escape wheel, three-arm steel balance with six cylindrical brass weights of alternating size applied to the lower surface of the balance wheel, flat balance spring, index regulator, outside countwheel striking on a bell mounted above the movement. Dial signed Coteau, case and movement signed Robin. Dim. 240 x 134 x 102 mm. Notes The pres
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-10-15
