56,640 CHF
The Triumph of Juno Pierre Pattey (Genève), enamel signed Huaud le puisné fecit, circa 1675. Very fine and important painted on enamel 21K gold single-hand prebalance spring watch. To be sold without reserve Two-body, “bassine”, deep back with inward edges, back finely painted on enamel depicting Juno in the clouds, two peacocks to her left, with a figure playing a rainbow as if it were a harp, and the figure of Zephyr, representing the wind, the band with four painted vignettes each with a house on a lake in an Alpine setting. Inside a castle with a passing traveler, gold bezel engraved with repeated pattern. White enamel, large ring with radial Roman numerals and half hour indexes, center finely painted with Flora holding a bouquet of flowers in one hand and a horn-of-plenty in the other. Blued steel “poker” hand with counterpoise. 33 mm., gilt brass, full plate, Egyptian pillars, fusee and chain, short three-wheel train with five-leaf pinions, verge escapement, circular steel foliot symmetrically pierced and engraved gilt cock secured by a screw, worm-gear and pinion mainspring set-up with silver scale plate. Signed on the movement, case signed Huaud Le puisne Fecit. Diam. 40 mm. Property of a Swiss Collector Notes Pierre Pattey Master watchmaker, he taught Michel Deluc in 1692 and André Besson in 1698. Les Frères Huaud, Jean-Pierre and Ami Jean-Pierre Huaud (1655-1725) and his younger brother Ami (1657-1724 - also referred to as Amicus) were the sons of Pierre Huaud
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-11-12
