Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 11, 2012

LOT 208

HERMÈS DESK CLOCK - ROBERT LAZURICK DEDICATION Hermès, Paris, the movement Jaeger-LeCoultre. Made in the 1950s. Fine, small, Perspex, gilt brass and leather, 8-day going desk clock with visible movement, probably designed by Paul Dupré-Lafon.

CHF 1,500 - 2,500

USD 1,600 - 2,700 / EUR 1,200 - 2,100

Sold: CHF 2,750

C. Square, Perspex, gilt-brass bracket support, compressed leather base with applied gilt-brass plaque inscribed ?Quarante Ans d?Amitié sans le Accrochage?.Quel Exemple aux Copains ! Quel Modèle aux Ménages !, Robert Lazurick?. D. Matte silver and gilt-brass chapter ring set inside the case with applied gilt ball and baton hour indexes. Gilt-brass circle and baton hands. M. Gilt-brass with linear wheel train, 15 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating fl at balance spring, index regulator. Case signed Hermès, Paris, 24, Fg. St. Honore. Dim. 14 x 15 x 6.8 mm


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-01

Good

HANDS Original

Notes

The inscribed dedication on this clock translates as : ?forty years of friendship without any attachment to any such friends! how to model a household! ?. Robert Lazurick (1895-1968), French journalist, founder and editor in chief of the daily paper L'Aurore. Lazurick was born in Paris of Russian-Jewish parents. He studied law and for some years he was an offi cial in French ministries. In 1936 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for the Socialist Party. After the French defeat in 1940, he escaped to Morocco, but returned to France in 1942 at the height of Nazi power and founded L'Aurore clandestinely in Nice, taking the name of Clemenceau's journal which had published Zola's J'accuse in 1898. L'Aurore became a leading newspaper in Paris after World War II, expressing staunch support for Israel.