Benedict Fürstenfelder

Benedict Fürstenfelder, Friedberg, circa 1740. Fine, petite sonnerie striking, quarter repeating, silver pair-cased repoussé coach watch with alarm and calendar. Outer: double-body chagrin covered. Inner: double-body silver, the bezel pierced and chased with foliage and military trophies, the back repoussé scene, depicting the Battle of Vienna, four repoussé busts on the border, two of men and two of women, one with exposed breasts, alternated with pierced and engraved foliage. Silver champlevé with Roman numerals and outer Arabic minute ring with arched divisions, center revolving alarm setting disc, two apertures at 12 o’clock for months with indcation of the number of days in a given month, another at 3 o’clock for days of the month. Blued-steel Louis XIV hands. Hinged gilt-brass full plate, with pierced and engraved gilt brass pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring, gilt brass English style cock, pierced and engraved with two masks en face and foliage. Pull wind quarter repeating, striking and alarm on a bell, with independent trains for quarters and hours, both with engravedgilt brass fixed barrels and revolving arbors, a lever for silence/striking.Signed on the movement.Diam. 112 mm. Notes The repoussé scene shows the Battle of Vienna, between the forces from the West, led by Prince Eugène de Savoie-Carignan, known as 'Prince Eugène', and the Turkish forces, led by Kara Mustapha, in 1683.Benedict Fürstenfel