36,800 CHF
The Rose of Shiraz (Pierre Didier) Lagisse (Geneva), made for the Persian market, circa 1678. Very rare and fine vermeil, gilt metal and rock crystal single-hand pendant watch with early balance spring,silver cock, “Tompion” regulator and fixed barrel. Eight-lobed form with two-part frame, the borders engraved with a hatched pattern, the interior surrounded with filigree foliage. Faceted rock crystal cover and back, with loose-ring pendant and button finial. Vermeil, champlevé of matching shape, with radial Roman numerals, half and quarter hour divisions on a matte ground, with punched decorations, the center with a rosette. Baluster-turned blued steel hand. Shaped gilt-brass, turned baluster pillars, pierced and florally engraved fixed barrel with going arbor, the wheel-and-pinion stop-work mounted on the backplate, four-wheel train, verge escapement with plain three-arm steel balance, flat balance spring, silver trefoil cock and regulator with blued steel retaining sector for the rack and silver indicator disk retained by a blued steel cock. Pierced and foliate engraved silver cock with small irregular foot. Signed on the movement. Dim. 51 x 32 mm. Notes The Lagisses were a well-known horological family in Geneva, in the 17th and 18th centuries. This watch, whose shape and ornamentation are reminiscent of Persian decorative art, is very likely the work of Pierre Didier Lagisse, who worked in Geneva before settling in Ispahan where he became watchmaker and advisor to t
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2002-04-13
