48,300 CHF
“Polychrome Champlevé” J(ean) Rousseau, Geneva. Made circa 1630. Very fine and very rare gold, gilt metal and rock crystal pre-balance spring, single-hand oval pendant watch. To be sold without reserve. Three-body, gilt brass, the band with oval hinged rings and oval rock crystal, the bezels set with domed rock crystal and engraved with delicate foliage on the inside and a stiff-leaf pattern on the outside, cast metal pendant, loose ring. Gold, radial Roman black champlevé enamel numerals, decorated with blue, green and red champlevé enamel. Blued-steel “tulip” hand. 25 x 28 mm, gilt brass full plate with vase baluster pillars, fusee and gut line, four-wheel train with five-leaf pinions, verge escapement, plain two-arm brass balance without spring, irregular elongated gilt one-footed cock secured by a screw and pierced and engraved with flowers and foliage, ratchet wheel and click set-up. Signed on the movement. Dim. 50 x 32 mm. Notes Literature: Published in the book of the collection of Lord Sandberg, page 54-55. A fine example of a rare pendant form watch produced in Geneva during the first part of the 17th century. It is interesting to notice the remnants of the previous era in its construction - block of the cock as were used for pinning and its S-shaped skeleton. The dial's pattern follows the Livre contenant passements de moresques by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, published in France in the 16th Century. Jean Rousseau, le Jeune, (1606-1684) Jean-Jacques Rousseau\
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-10-16
