Hanet à Paris, circa 1680. Rare and fine early balance spring watch with alarm. | Important Collectors Wristwatches Pocket Watches & Clocks | Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, 22nd April 1995

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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 22, 1995

LOT 396

Hanet à Paris, circa 1680. Rare and fine early balance spring watch with alarm.

CHF 10,000 - 12,000

USD 8,000 - 10,000

C. Double body, bassine with split bezel and loose ring pendant, the border of the back finely pierced and engraved with inhabited foliage. D. Silver champlevé with Roman numerals, centre revolving alarm setting disc with Arabic mimerais and foliage. Blued steel single band and pointer. M. Hinged gilt brass full plate with amphora pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement, plain steel three-arm balance, short early balance spring, Huygens type regulator, ratchet wheel setup, small florally pierced gilt brass cock with apertures allowing the balance spring to be seen. Alarm train with gilt brass fixed barrel pierced and engraved with foliage, striking on a bell. Signed on the back plate. In very good condition. Diam. 50 mm.

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Very eminent watchmaker in the second part of the XVIIth. century, Nicolas Hanet was among the very first French makers to be appointed by Huygens to produce in Paris the first pendulum clocks and the first watches with the balance spring invented in 1675.