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Geneva, Dec 08, 2022

LOT 173

PIERRE DROUYNOT, COACH WATCH, HOUR STRIKING, ALARM GILT BRASS

CHF 7,000 - 14,000

EUR 7,200 - 14,300 / USD 7,500 - 14,900 / HKD 58,000 - 116,000

Sold: CHF 16,250

Very fine and extremely rare gilt metal single-hand, hour striking three-train coach watch with an alarm, in original fitted travelling box with dial viewing cover.
The back engraved with a small rosette, the band pierced and engraved with flowers and foliage and four anchors, tulip pendant with loose ring.
Gilt dial, floral and mask engraving outside the applied Roman chapter ring with quarter-hour divisions, centre rotating gilt alarm disc comprising four flower-engraved divisions with fleur-de-lis blued-steel pointer indicating the time. Blued-teel 'poker' hand for setting the alarm.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent

Case: 3-8

Good

Slightly scratched

Movement: 3-6-8**

Good

Slightly oxidized

Slightly scratched

Repair required, at buyer's expense

Dial: 3-01

Good

HANDS Original

Brand Jean Drouynot a Poitiers, France

Model Coach watch

Year Circa 1650

Material Gilt brass

Diameter 90 mm. travelling box 105 mm.

Caliber 63.6 mm, gilt brass full plate with vase pillars, fusee and chain, four-wheel train, verge escapement, plain steel three-arm balance, short balance spring, unusual continental cock with two feet, pierced and engraved with symmetrical foliage, the feet engraved with scallop shells, wheel and click set-up covered with a bridge decorated with flowers and foliage. Fixed barrel for the striking, pierced and engraved with foliage, five-wheel train, silverount wheel mounted on the bottom plate, striking with one hammer on a bell, alarm with fixed barrel and three-wheel train, striking on the same bell.

Signature Movement

Accessories Original fitted travelling box

Provenance

The Sandberg Watch Collection lot number 70