34,500 HKD
P. yuer, A Florence, circa 1700. Very fine and rare, brass, silver and enamel, pair-cased, single-hand “oignon” watch with alarm. Silver, champlevé with Roman chapters, diamondhalf-hour marks, concentric silver revolving alarm disc withArabic numerals, with blued-steel fleur-de-lys pointer indicatingthe time. Blued-steel alarm hand. 39.6 mm, hinged gilt brassfull plate with turned vase pillars, two-train, fusee and chain,verge escapement, plain steel three-arm balance, double-footedcock, pierced and engraved with asymmetrical foliage, regulatorpointer protruding from beneath a semi-circular blued-steelguard below the bridge, wheel and click set-up. Pierced andengraved fixed barrel for the alarm driving four-wheel steeltrain, striking on a bell.Signed on the movement.Diam. 60 mm. Notes The present watch was previously sold in the Lord Sandberg sale, March 31, 2001, lot 12, and is published in the Lord Sandberg book, pages 116- 117.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-07-10