4,956 CHF
“Oignon Alarm” P. yuer, A Florence. Made circa 1700. Very fine and rare, brass, silver and painted on enamel, pair-cased, single-hand “oignon” watch with alarm. Silver, champlevé with Roman chapters, diamond half-hour markers, concentric silver revolving alarm disc with Arabic numerals, with blued-steel fleur-de-lys pointer indicating the time. Blued-steel alarm hand. 39.6 mm, hinged gilt brass full plate with turned vase pillars, two-train, fusee and chain,verge escapement, plain steel three-arm balance, double-footed cock, pierced and engraved with asymmetrical foliage, regulator pointer protruding from beneath a semi-circular blued-steel guard below the bridge, wheel and click set-up. Pierced and engraved fixed barrel for the alarm driving four-wheel steel train, striking on a bell. Movement signed. Diam. 60 mm. To be sold without reserve Notes The present watch was previously sold by Antiquorum, Geneva,The Sandberg Collection, March 31, 2001, lot 12, and is published in the Lord Sandberg book, pages 116- 117.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-05-14
