19,550 CHF
(Jacques) Girod à Copet (Geneva), circa 1690. Very fine and rare large silver single-hand coach watch with alarm. Double-body, "bassine", polished, the band pierced and engraved with inhabited foliage, back with shutters over winding apertures. Silver champlevé with Roman numerals and inner silver alarm-setting disc with fleur-de-lis steel hour pointer. Blued steel single hand for setting the alarm. 56 mm., hinged gilt brass full plate with Egyptian pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, plain steel three-arm balance, flat balance spring, gilt brass cock pierced and engraved with inhabited folage. Alarm train with fixed barrel pierced and engraved with foliage, striking on a bell.Signed on the back plate.Diam. 69 mm. Notes Jacques Giroda watchmaker working in Coppet, near Geneva, during the late 17th century and early 18th century, whose production included very well made oignon watches, watches with alarm, and coach watches."Dictionnaire des horlogers genevois", Osvaldo Patrizzi, Antiquorum Editions, Geneva, 1998.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2002-11-16
