52,900 CHF
Anonymous, late 16th. century. A very rare and fine gilt-metal miniature weightdriven striking and alarm wall dock. Silver chapter with engraved Roman numerals and half-hour arrow divisions. Single gilt brass hand. Three bar in line with additional bars at right angles for mounting the gilt count-wheel and alarm-setting disk. Part gilt trains with serrated steel drums for the ropes. Three-wheel going-train with verge escapement, single arm brass balance with sprung lever to lift the verge and disengage the pallets for setting to time. Simple C scroll cock. Striking train with four blade solid fly, the count-wheel with internai hour division slots and driven off the great wheel by a transverse mounted wheel with turret pinion. Alarm train with constantly engaged hour disk calibrated with Arabic numerals, with friction tight setting disk with a detent for releasing the transverse mounted locking arm. Crown wheel and verge controller with double-ended hammer. Both trains striking on a cloche bell. In very good condition with some restorations. Dims. 150 x 75 x 75 mm. Notes Literature: A very similar dock was formerly in the Paul Garnier Collection, and is now in the Louvre, Paris, Inv. No. 7017 -see G. Migeon, Collection Paul Garnier, Paris, 1917, pp. 87-88, pl. XLIII, and Tardy La Pendule Française, Vol", Paris, 1981, p.49. Three examples of miniature wall docks (including this lot) and an empty case are known to have survived, all of virtually identical construction and
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1993-11-14
