German Clockwatch" Paul Schroder

"German Clockwatch" Paul Schroder, Kiel. Made circa 1700. Very fine and very rare, silver pair-cased hour-striking clockwatch with repeat. Outer: two-body, "bassine", lozenge-engraved borders, pierced bezel. Inner: two-body, "bassine", deep back, the band finely pierced and engraved with inhabited foliage, split bezel. Silver champleve with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and Arabic five minute numerals, the center with signature cartouche. Fancy gilt hands. 40 mm., frosted gilt full plate, turned baluster and fancy vase pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement, three-arm balance, flat balance spring, finely pierced and engraved winged balance cock, blued steel endplate, silver regulation disc, striking train with engraved barrel, steel hammer, repeat button at 10, strike/not strike lever at 2. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 58 mm. Notes Paul Schroder I Was born in 1654 and died in 1715. In 1683 he made a new clock for the Marienkirche in Rendsberg. See: Jurgen Abeler "Meister der Uhrmacherkunst", 1977. Kiel, a city in northern Germany and the capital of Schleswig Holstein, belonged to the king of Denmark from 1773 to 1864. Since the king ruled Holstein as a fief of the Holy Roman Empire only through a personal union, the town was not incorporated into Denmark proper. Kiel was thus a German possession ruled by the Danish king. Upon the abolition of the Empire in 1806, the Danish king continued to rule Kiel as Duke of Holstein. When Schleswig and Ho Read more…