80,500 CHF
Charles) Le Bon, Paris, circa 1710. Exceptional and very important “Tête de Poupée” gilt bronze 8 day going hour- and half hour-striking coach and table clock with a provision for choosing the pendulum or the balance. The movement housing tapers down to the rectangular molded base with its center decorated with a laurel leaf pattern alternating with matte, the neck with a rhomboidal pattern and enameled plaque with the maker’s signature, the top with two arches terminating in a crowned head, the sides with applied ormolu women’s busts on matte background and rhomboidal surface, floral finial, back panel hinged upwards, lower fixed part with aperture for changing from pendulum to balance mode, engraved “carosse” and “repos”. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track with five-minute Arabic markers, inner quarter-hour division, winding apertures. Blued steel “fleur-de-lis” hands. brass, following the shape of the case, baluster pillars, fusee and chain for the going train with its barrel in the lower part, going barrel for the striking, verge escapement, 4-arm brass balance, blued steel flat balance spring, amethyst endstone, small bob pendulum set on a pivoted lever with silkuspension and Huygens cycloidal cheeks, very clever mechanism lifting and blocking pendulum when in balance mode, when in pendulum mode (crutch acting on fixed pin at the balance rim) triggering balance amplitude limiting device, pierced and engraved double-footed gilded cock, count wheel
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-11-14
