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Geneva, Oct 01, 2020
LOT 89
Jacq. Jolly
Pocket watch; silver
CHF 1,500 - 1,800
EUR 1,400 - 1,700 / USD 1,650 - 2,000 / HKD 12,700 - 15,300TO BE SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE
Sold: CHF 2,500
Silver, key-winding, oblong-shaped, “revival” pocket watch with cover; dial engraved in taille-douce (fine-cut) with hunting scenes.
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Case: 3 |
Good |
Movement: 3** |
Good Repair required, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 3-01 |
Good HANDS Original |
Brand Jolly
Model apocryphal signature, made by Dino Falcone, Milan (Italy)
Year circa 1970
Movement No. unnumbered
Case No. unnumbered
Material silver
Caliber 83 x 29.3 mm., fusee and gut, verge escapement
Height 102.9 mm.
Width 34.2 mm.
Signature movement
Accessories original fitted box
Notes
Revival watch
After the revival of the Medieval and Renaissance styles, initiated in France by Prosper Mérimée (1803-1870) and Eugène Violet-le-Duc (1814-1879), objects of vertu (or virtue) inspired by works of art from the 16th and 17th centuries were much in favour in most European countries in the second half of the 19th century.
This kind of watch in the style of the 17th century may have come from the workshops of Kirks & Schwartz in Munich, Bavaria (Germany), active between c.1875 and c.1920, which is a specialty to recreate from ancient elements, including movements with verge escapement of the 18th century.
Such watches were sold as exhibition pieces and were not intended to be used and were sometime not fitted with working trains. As often, these reconstructed objects are later offered for sale as originals.
In the 1960’s and 1980’s, a few watchmakers re-created watches of this kind while the antique pieces market was in vogue; Dino Falcone from Milan (Italy) is one of them. Other counterfeiters, more specialised in medium volume watchmaking, were active in the Netherlands in particular.
CONDITIONS AND INFORMATION FOR BUYERS
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