Leucothea and Phoebus ApolloIsaac Perrot

Leucothea and Phoebus ApolloIsaac Perrot, Geneva, enamel painted in the style of Pierre Huaud I, circa 1660. Extremely fine and rare 18K gold and enamel prebalance spring single-hand watch. Two-body, "bassine" type with edges turned inwards, back very finely painted on enamel with Leucothea and Phoebus Apollo after an engraving by Henrik Goltzius (1558-1617), inside enamel painted with ruins and a bank of a river, band with four vignettes with rural scenes, short pendant, loose ring. Very slightly convex, enamel on gold, outer Roman numerals on white enamel ring with half-hour divisions, inside finely painted Venus, steel single poker hand. 33.5 mm., hinged, gilt full platwith unusual, thin rectangular pillars pierced with four symmetrical openings, fusee and gut, short four-wheel train with five-leaf pinions, two-arm steel balance without a spring, elongated cock pierced and engraved with floral decoration in symmetrical manner, worm and wheel set-up.Signed on the back plate.Diam. 39 mm. Notes Isaac PerrotA master horologer, he taught Louis Perrot in 1666 and Jaques Colladon in 1675.The scene represents Phoebus Apollo, identified with the Sun (Phoebus from the Latin, meaning "shining"), whom Aphrodite made fall in love in Leucothea, the daughter of Orchamus, ruler of Persia. Apollo took the appearance of Leucothea's mother Eurynome, interrupted her at her spinning, won her confidence, then resumed his divine form. Clytia, a daughter of Oceanus, who was in love with Read more…