160,250 CHF
Goullons à Marseille and Huaud le Puisné Fecit, 1690. A fine 20 carat gold and enamel watch case, with slightly earlier movement and dial. From Blois, in the manner of Robert Vauquer, enamelled on gold, with outer ring for Roman hour numerals, half and quarter hour divisions, centre decorated in polychrome colours with Rinaldo and Amida. Single bluedsteel tulip hand. Circular gilt full plate with turned halluster pillars, gut fusee, three wheel train with verge escapement, plain three-arm brass balance, (later) oval section pierced and florally engraved cock secured by a screw (old repairs to table) worm-and-wheel set-up with blued-steel hrackets and silver indicating disc.Signed on the movement and case. In good condition, with alterations as stated. Diam. 40mm. Notes Goullons à Marseille is apparently not recorded, although an outstanding watch signed Goullons à Paris with a portrait of Cardinal Richelieu, is in the collection of the Chaux-de-Fonds Museum. Judging from the style of this movement it would certainly seem to be of later date, and it may be possible that Goullons or his son subsequently settled in Marseille. Jean-Pierre Huaud, the second son of Pierre Huaud I, vas born in Geneva in 1665, and was responsible for tutoring his brother, Ami, in the art of painting on enamel. Few watches bearing his signature alone survive, and when Pound, carry the suffix 'puisné' The majority of his work \ vas carried out with Ami when they worked for the Elector of Brand
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1993-11-14