6,600 CHF
Quarter-Repeating Oignon Cv(u)per a Blois. Made circa 1710. Fine and very rare, quarter-repeating, Louis XIV, gilt brass oignon watch. Two-body, “oignon”, the back chased and engraved with a female bust in profile within a foliate border with musical trophy, pierced sound frets, the bezel decorated with foliate strapwork, loose ring pendant. Silver and gilt with radial black champleve Roman numerals, inner quarter-hour ring, outer minute divisions with Arabic five-minute numerals, winding aperture between 4 and 5. Blued steel beetle and poker hands. 43 mm, frosted gilt full plate, divided Egyptian pillars, fusee and chain, worm and wheel set-up, verge escapement, three-arm steel balance, pierced and chased cock decorated with inhabited foliage and strapwork, Tompion-type regulator with silver scale disc, repeating with a single hammer on a bell in the back of the case activated by depressing the pendant. Movement signed. Diam. 57 mm. Notes Literature: La Montre Française, Adolphe Chapiro, Les Editions de l’Amateur, 1991, pp. 72, 73 & 79, fig 157-160
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-11-16
