97th Auction

2018/5/12

Lot 79

Attributed to Pierre-François Gautrin à Paris, 145 mm, 2300 g, circa 1770
An important carriage clock with quarter/hour self strike, hour repeater, alarm and special form cylinder escapement with vertically arranged escape wheel and vertically arranged balance - produced for the Ottoman market, with corresponding silver watch stand with ebonized base
Case: silver, rear bell. Dial: enamel. Movm.: full plate movement, chain/fusee, 2 barrels for alarm and striking train, 3 hammers, fine rack strike levers applied on the back side, three-arm brass balance.
The back of the case is decorated with a striking scene showing the winged god Chronos. Chronos is holding his scythe while pushing the terrestrial globe in front of him. Horizontally oval-shaped cartouches filled with flowers and flower tendrils frame the centre, the band has sound holes.
There is not much information available about Pierre-François Gautrin; Tardy lists him in Paris, where he became a master in 1767.
This timepiece is illustrated and described in "Die Kutschenuhr" (the carriage clock) by Lukas Stolberg, Munich 1993, p. 201, with the signature entry. Unfortunately, we could not locate the signature on the clock and can only attribute it for this reason.

Sold

estimated
50.00080.000 €
Price realized
69.500 €