5,040 CHF
Quarter-Repeating Oignon Pierre Rousseau a Paris. Made circa 1710. Very fine and very rare, quarter-repeating, Louis XIV, silver oignon watch. Two-body, “oignon”, the back decorated with concentric rings, pierced sound frets and engraved border, the bezel decorated with foliate strapwork, square hinge. Silver with large radial black champleve Roman numerals, lozenge half-hour divisions, inner quarter-hour ring, outer minute divisions with Arabic fiveminute numerals, winding aperture between 4 and 5. Blued steel beetle and poker hands. 50 mm, frosted gilt full plate, divided Egyptian pillars, fusee and chain, click and pawl set-up, verge escapement, three-arm steel balance, pierced and chased cock decorated with symmetrical foliage and strapwork, Tompion-type regulator with gilt scale disc, fine pierced foliate feet, repeating with a single hammer on a bell in the back of the case activated by depressing the pendant. Movement signed. Diam. 62 mm. Notes Literature: La Montre Française, Adolphe Chapiro, Les Editions de l’Amateur, 1991, p. 71, fig 156.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-11-16
