18,400 CHF
Claude Raillard à Paris, vers 1665. Rare small 20 ct. gold watch. Double body bassine, polished with split bezel and loose-ring pendant. White enamel on gold with Roman numerals, half and quarter hour divisions. Fine blued-steel single hand. Gilt brass full plate with turned baluster pillars. Three wheel train with fusee and gut line, worm-andwheel set-up with blued steel finely pierced brackets, verge escapement with plain balance without spring, florally pierced oval gilt brass cock, secured by a screw. Signed on the back plate. h1 very good condition with Iater leather fitted box. Diam. 29nun. Notes Claude Raillard, Ier, may have been one of the signatories to the list of new articles of protection submitted to the King in march 1645. Member of the Juré in 1662 and 1675, he l'as established at Quai Pelleterie from 1698 to 1700. In 1665, lie supplied a dock to Mazarin for the sum of 450 livres. He died in 1708, and his son, Claude II succeeded him, becoming master by patrimony. This is as small a watch as can be found for the period, but would originally have had an outer protecting case.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1993-11-14
