Nicolas Hanet

Nicolas Hanet, Paris, circa 1690. Fine and rare ebonised pear-wood veneered, hour and half hour-striking early pendulum clock. Rectangular with chased gilt bronze fret pierced with a foliage decoration, glazed side panels. Brass chapter ring with Roman numerals and outer Arabic minute ring. Fine gilt brass pierced and engraved "persil" hands. Purple velvet covered rose-wood dial plate with gilt bronze spandrels, the pendulum aperture below the dial covered by a gilt bronze cartouche. Brass rectangular, with turned pillars, single double ended going barrel for both the going and the striking train. Verge escapement with short pendulum, silk suspension with cycloidal cheeks. Striking on a bell, the count-wheel on the back plate. Signed on the cartouche below the dial. In good condition. Dim. 44,5 x 28,5 x 13 cm. Notes THURET Isaac II. 1630-1706 Born in Senlis about 1630, died in Paris on 11 April 1706. Married Margaret Hélot in 1663. Father of Jacques Thuret. He 'vas perhaps apprenticed to his brother-in-law, Charles Sarrabat. Received as master in the Faubourg-Saint-Germain before 1662, then in Paris before 1675. -Marchand Orlogeur Ordinaire du Roi before 1663, Horloger Ordinaire du Roi et de l'Académie des Sciences before 1672. Established in the Rue Neuve Saint Louis 1663, Place Dauphine at the sign of La Renommée 1675. Lodged in the Galeries du Louvre on 31 January 1686. Thuret was considered as the greatest clockmaker of his time. Germain Brice praised "the cloc