37,760 CHF
Wandering Hours" Johann Christoph Strigell, Kreilsheim. Made circa 1700. Very fine and very rare, silver, pair-cased, wandering hour pocket watch. Outer: two-body, "bassine", square hinge, the back with radial fluted pattern and central rosette, the bezel decorated with an alternating diamond and dot design. Inner: two-body, "bassine" polished, deep back, split bezel. Silver, aperture for the wandering hours with finely chased foliate gilt mask, Roman hour numerals in two further apertures, outer minute sector with Arabic five-minute numerals, inner scale from 1-4, finely pierced and chased gilt foliate mask below the dial. 40 mm., frosted gilt full plate, large pierced foliate pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement, three-arm steel balance, short balance spring, finely pierced and engraved foliate winged balance cock, silver regulation disc. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 57 mm. Notes Johann Christophe Strigel(l) is listed in: Jurgen Abeler book "Meister der Uhrmacherkunst", 1977 edition. working at the end of the 17th century and beginning of the 18th century. Wandering Hour Dial An annular slit extending throgh half a circle appears in the upper half of the dial. Round its outer edge on the dial plate are numbers 0-60 in five minute intervals and minute graduations. Under the dial plate is another rotating plate, the full diameter of the dial. Two holes are cut out of the rotating plate exactly opposite to each other, pivoted to the rotating plate are tw Read more…
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-05-13
