100th Auction
2019/11/15
Lot 57
Hierosme Grebauval à Rouen, 58 x 29 mm, 60 g, circa 1640
An extremely rare small octagonal watch
Case: silver and gilt brass, lavishly florally engraved with mystik creatures and foliage. Dial: brass, firegilt, silver chapter ring, lavishly engraved with entwined leaves and masks, blued hand. Movm.: fine full plate movement, firegilt, signed, chain/fusee, three-arm brass balance without balance spring, fine florally engraved, pierced balance cock.
The case of this miniature pendant watch is allover ornamented with exquisite silver engraving. The main sections show "Mary with the child" on the front and "Saint Louis" on the back. Above the chapter ring the motif is "Leda and the swan", the centre of the ring is decorated with houses on a lakeshore. Its size and the particularly elaborate ornamentation make this timepiece a very rare and unusual example among the octagonal pendant watches.
According to Tardy, Hierosme (Jérôme) Grébauval was active in Rouen in the mid 17th century.
An extremely rare small octagonal watch
Case: silver and gilt brass, lavishly florally engraved with mystik creatures and foliage. Dial: brass, firegilt, silver chapter ring, lavishly engraved with entwined leaves and masks, blued hand. Movm.: fine full plate movement, firegilt, signed, chain/fusee, three-arm brass balance without balance spring, fine florally engraved, pierced balance cock.
The case of this miniature pendant watch is allover ornamented with exquisite silver engraving. The main sections show "Mary with the child" on the front and "Saint Louis" on the back. Above the chapter ring the motif is "Leda and the swan", the centre of the ring is decorated with houses on a lakeshore. Its size and the particularly elaborate ornamentation make this timepiece a very rare and unusual example among the octagonal pendant watches.
According to Tardy, Hierosme (Jérôme) Grébauval was active in Rouen in the mid 17th century.
estimated
20.000—28.000 €
Price realized
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