6,900 CHF
Duhard à Bourdeaux, circa 1710. Fine gilt metal, leather-covered Louis XIV single-hand 'oignon' alarm watch. Double-body, bezel and back covered with leather, pierced with roundels. 43.3 mm o, hinged gilt brass full plate with Egyptian pillars, two-train, fusee with chain, verge escapement, plain steel three-arm balance, short flat balance spring, rack and pinion rgulator, large Louis XIV cock pierced and engraved with inhabited foliage. Pierced and engraved alarm fixed barrel driving four-wheel steel train striking on a bell.Signed on the back plate.Diam. 57 mm. Published in the Sandberg book, page 106-107. Notes Duhard Jeanis recorded as having worked in Bordeaux between 1691-1718.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2001-03-31