P. Ioseph Stasinon A Tournay

P. Ioseph Stasinon A Tournay, circa 1700. Very fine and rare gilt brass, gold and silver Louis XIV "oignon" with date, enamel cock and ' false' pendulum. Three body, oignon, with glazed back, the bezels chased with scroll decoration on a matted ground. Gold champleve with Roman numerals and outer Arabic minute ring, the centre pierced and engraved with scrolls and a cartouche for the signature, with applied blued-steel plate visible behind and date aperture below. Blued-steel hands. Hinged gilt brass full plate the Egyptian pillars with chased decoration, pierced and engraved silver chain guard and stop-arm bracket for the fusee with chain, verge escapement, blued-steel three-arm balance, flat balance spring, the cock set with a full size enamel plaque, finely painted with the portrait of a lady over a black ground in the manner of the Huaud brothers, a garnet set mock pendulum, fixed on the balance arm, oscillating within a semi-circular aperture below the cock, to one side of which is the silver regulator disk, the other with apparently matching disk which is the off-set winding square. Signed on the dial and back plate. h1 very good condition. Diam. 54 mm. Notes Pierre Joseph Stasinon, recorded as working in Gant and subsequently in Tournay in the early 18th. century. Although signed with the name of a tocan that now forets part of the Belgian province of Hainaut, this watch can clearly be classed as an oignon. The intricacy and quality of the craftsmanship is ex Read more…