Pierre Drouynot

Pierre Drouynot, A Poitiers, circa 1650. Very fine and extremely rare gilt metal single-hand, hour striking three-train coach watch with an alarm, in original fitted travelling box. 63.6 mm o, gilt brass full plate with vase pillars, fusee and chain, four-wheel train, verge escapement, plain steel three-arm balance, short balance spring, unusual continental cock with two feet, pierced and engraved with symmetrical foliage, the feet engraved with scallop shells, wheel and click set-up covered with a bridge decorated with flowers and foliage. Fixed barrel for the striking, pierced and engraved with foliage, five-wheel train, silverount wheel mounted on the bottom plate, striking with one hammer on a bell, alarm with fixed barrel and three-wheel train, striking on the same bell.Signed on the movement.Diam. 90 mm. Published in the Sandberg book, page 78-79. Notes Drouynot PierreTardy recorded Pierre Drouynot as having worked in Poitiers in the middle of the 19th century.