Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Hotel Du Rhone, Apr 02, 2006

LOT 410

?The Madonna and Child? Turet (Thuret) à Paris. Made circa 1700. Very fine and very rare, gilt brass, single-hand oignon watch, wound through the center, with Geneva school painted on enamel balance cock.

CHF 6,000 - 9,000

108 3,800 - 5,800

Sold: CHF 11,210

C. Three-body, ?oignon?, back and bezel engraved with inhabited foliage, hinged back opening to reveal a fixed cuvette with glazed aperture for viewing the enameled cock. D. Gilt brass with white enamel cartouches in relief with blue radial Roman numerals, inner quarter-hour chapter, the center chased with exotic birds and foliage. Blued steel hand. M. 46 mm, hinged, frosted gilt full plate with divided Egyptian pillars, fusee and chain with nicely engraved guard plate, verge escapement with steel balance and short balance spring, continental type double-footed cock with finely painted on enamel scene depicting the Madonna and Child, Tompion type regulator. Movement signed. Diam. 58 mm. To be sold without reserve


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3-15-22

Good

Slightly rusted

Later original
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 4-29-38-05

Fair

Lacking elements

Slightly rubbed

HANDS Luminous material reapplied

Notes

Isaac Thuret II (c. 1630 -1706) Was considered to be the greatest clockmaker of his time. The great Leibniz called him "Thuret the famous clock-maker", Germain Brice praised "the Academie des Sciences clockmaker with a profound knowledge of mathematics, who has made a great contribution to the improvement of clocks"; and the astronomer Richer maintained that Thuret "by his exactitude and the delicacy of his work has now surpassed all those involved in making watches and pendulum clocks". Thuret?s activity was intense: the King, the Royal Family, the ministers, the great financiers and members of the nobility were all his clients. This lot was previously sold by Antiquorum, Geneva, on April 24, 2004, lot 230.