10,350 CHF
Jean Deonna, (Geneva), circa 1700. Fine silver pair cased watch with alarm. Double body outer, bezel and back pierced and engraved with flowers and inhabited foliage, the back with four small repoussse profile portraits. Inner double body, bassine with split bezel, the back pierced and engraved with a mask and inhabited foliage. Silver champleve with Roman numerals and inner revolving alarm setting disc. Blued steel single hand and pointer. Hinged gilt brass full plate with Egyptian pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, plain steel three-arm balance, flat balance spring, silver English style cock pierced and engraved with foliage and volatiles. Signed on the back plate applied with a gilt brass decoration of pierced and engraved foliage. In very good condition. Diam. 50 mm. Notes Jean Deonna, eminent watchmaker in Geneva toward the end of the XVllth century. He took Jean-François Rousseau as apprentice in 1700.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1994-04-10