97th Auction

2018/5/12

Lot 393

Jaques Bellot à Genève, Height 160 mm, circa 1805
An important early carriage clock of high quality with quarter hour / hour self strike and calendar - with original key
Case: burnished bronze, partially gilt, engraved bun feet, cornice with dentil pattern, the angles decorated with finely cast Corinthian 3/4 columns, glazed front, waved handle on top. Dial: silver, engine-turned. Movm.: round brass full plate movement, keywind, 2 hammers / 2 bells, 30h power reserve, 2 barrels / chain / fusee, polished rack strike levers applied on the back side, verge escapement, three-arm brass balance.
Illustrated and described in: Lodovico Magistretti and Luigi Pippa "I Ritmi del Tempo - Storia ed evoluzione della Pendulette de voyage", Milan 1998, p. 48 and 69.
Jacques Bellot
Charles Allix called this type of carriage clock "pre-pendule de voyage"; it dates to the early 18th century or earlier.
According to Tardy, Jacques Bellot worked for the manufactory in Versailles around 1795. This was the year when Abraham-Louis Breguet received orders to reorganize the manufactory. In 1796 Nicolas-Constant Lemaire and Glaesner were directors of the manufactory and Lemaire also had a workshop which produced luxury clocks. He and Bellot submitted a petition to the Agricultural and Arts Council which suggested the foundation of a state-aided body for the production of all kinds of clocks. This body was subsequently established and staffed with employees from Geneva.

estimated
11.00015.000 €
Price realized
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