69,000 CHF
Gribelin à Blois, circa 1620. Fine and rare gilt brass hour-striking coach watch with alarm. Double body, "forme collier" with loose-ring pendant, the flat band pierced and engraved with scrolled foliage, plain back with winding shutters. Engraved loose-ring pendant and turned button finial. Gilt brass dial-plate finely engraved with foliage and flowers on a hatched ground, with applied gilt brass chapter ring with Roman numerals, the inner silver alarm setting ring with quatrefoil pierced centre. Single hand (excellent replacement). Hinged gilt brass full plate secured by a latch, with turned urn pillars, fusee with gut-line, verge escapement, plain steel twoarm steel balance without spring, irregular florally pierced and engraved cock secured by a pin, ratchet wheel set-up with matching gilt brass click and blued-steel spring, striking train with florally pierced fixed barrel and engraved count wheel on the back plate. Strike and alarm trains with blued-steel stop-work on the back plate, each with decorative pierced and engraved gilt brass cock. Striking and alarm on a bell (old repair). Signed on the back plate. In very good condition. Diam. 83 mm. Notes At the present time it is probably impossible to decide with any certainty wether this watch is the work of Simon Gribelin, the founder of a veritable dynasty of craFtsmen, or his son Abraham; circa 1625, both were established in Blois. The somewh at formai style of the excellent engraving on the case and dial coul
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1993-11-14
