40,250 CHF
Estienne Hubert à Rouen, circa 1695. Very fine and rare fire gilded brass hour-striking, pre-balance alarm coach watch. double-body, "bassine", sides pierced and engraved with foliage, back engraved with rosette, bezel engraved with geometrical pattern. Hinged gilt brass full plate with column pillars, fusee and gut-line, verge escapement, plain steel two-arm balance without a spring, cock with a single small foot, pierced and engraved with foliage, short thre-wheel train, striking on a bell.Signed on the back plate.Diam. 85 mm. Notes A very similar watch signed Estienne Hubert is in the Victoria and Albert Museum collection and is illustrated in Tardy’s 'Dictionaire des Horlogers Français', p 311.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2000-10-15
