97,750 HKD
Hubert Sarton a Liege. Made circa 1790. Fine, silver quarter striking and repeating coach watch with alarm. Two-body, pierced, polished and engraved with stylised foliatedecoration, aperture for the repeat cord below 6. White enamel,Arabic numerals, outer star minute markers, Arabic quarter hour numerals,sonnerie/silence lever in the dial plate. Blued steel Breguethands. 87 mm, frosted gilt, full plate, turned pillars, fusee with chain,spring barrels for the striking and alarm trains, polished steelhammers, verge escapement, brass three-arm balance, blued steelbalance-spring, pierced and chased continental type balance cock,polished steel “V” shaped regulator arm with index scale, striking andrepeating on a bell at the quarters or at will.Dial signed. Diam. 109 mm. Notes Hubert Sarton was born in Paris in 1748. Around 1772 he became a pupil of J. Le Roy. Sarton settled in Liège, where he died in 1828, at the age of 80. In 1782, he published a "Description de plusieurs pièces d'horlogerie". He made clocks with carillon, regulator escapements with compensation, clocks with decimal indications, self-winding watches, etc.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-07-10
