19,550 CHF
G. Garrot A Paris, circa 1660. A very fine and small silver pair cased watch with piqué decoration. Outer: Silver frame entirely covered in dark leather with elaborate graduated pin work floral motifs. Inner: Plain polished silver with vvinding shutter, split bezel and loose ring pendant. Hinged gilt dial plate located by four lugs, the engraved border and applied plain silver dial with Roman hour numerals and half-hour marks. Single engraved and pierced double ended gilt hand. GiIt full plate with turned vase pillars, fusee with gut, three wheel train with verge escapement, plain two-arm steel balance without spring, oval pattern pierced and florally engraved balance cock secured by a screw, with matching ratchet wheel set-up cock, blued-steel wheel and click spring. Signed on the back plate. In very good condition. Diam. 41 mm.. Notes For a brief biography of Gregoire Gamot refer to the previous lot. Other examples of his work are preserved in the Pierrepoint Morgan Collection, notably a fine Blois watch, and another in the Dr. Eugene Gschwind Foundation in the Kirschgarten Museum in Basle.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1993-11-14
