8,625 CHF
Hubert Sarton à Liège, circa 1790. Fine and rare 18K gold astronomical manual perpetual calendar watch with days of the week, date, months, phases and age of the moon, and stop-watch feature. Double-body, "Lepine" with concealed hinge, polished. White enamel with Arabic numerals and outer month ring with corresponding number of days, four subsidiary dials for days of the week, date, age of the moon with painted phases of the moon, and subsidiary seconds. Blued-steel elaborate Breguet hands. 52 mm, hinged gilt brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee with chain, cylinder escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring, gilt brass continental cock with sapphire end-stone. Gilt brass dust cap. Signed on the back plate and dust cap.Diam. 60 mm. Notes Huber Sarton was born in Paris in 1748. Around 1772 he became a pupil of J. Le Roy. Sarton settled in Liège, where he died in 1828, at the age of 80. In 1782, he published a "Description de plusieurs pièces d'horlogerie". He made clocks with carillon, regulator escapements with compensation, clocks with decimal indications, self-winding watches, etc.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-04-24
