Marc Grangier

Marc Grangier, Geneva, circa 1650. Very fine and rare silver and enamel diamond-set pre-balance spring watch. Double body, bassine with split-bezel and loose-ring pendant, the back of turquoise blue enamel with a wreath of black and white foliage enamelled en pute , the central floral motif with high relief, pink and blue enamel petals, enriched with nine table cut diamonds, the inside of the back decorated en suite and centred with a black painted rosette. White chapter ring enamelled on copper with Roman numerals and half-hour divisions, the centre of turquoise blue enamel painted with a pink black and white floral motif. Single blued steel band. Hinged gilt brass full plate with turned baluster pillars, fusee with gutline, three wheel train with verge escapement, plain two-arm steel balance without spring, irregular oval foret cock pierced and engraved with foliage, secured by a screw. Worm-and-wheel set-up and silver regulator disl Signed on the back plate. In very good condition. Diam. 40 mm. Notes Previously in the 1-lof Collection, this watch is described and illustrated by P. Jaquet and A. Chapuis in Histoire et Technique de In Mouler Suisse, 1945, pp.30-31, pl. 19, as a good example of an early enamelled watch illustrating the close link between the techniques in use both in Geneva and Châtellerault. Marc Grangier, from Geneva, appears to have been active in Châtellerault where in 1629 the son of Martin Duboule was sent to be trained by him. ln 1656 Grangier's