Important Collector's Wristwatches an...
Hong Kong, Hotel Furama Kempinski, Jun 14, 1995
LOT 87
Claude Raillard à Paris, circa 1660. Rare small 20 ct. gold watch.
HKD 110,000 - 120,000
USD 15,000 - 18,000
C. Double body bassine, polished with split bezel and loose-ring pendant. D. White enamel with Roman numerals, half and quarter hour divisions. Fine blued steel single hand. M. Gilt brass full plate with turned baluster pillars. Three wheel train with fusee and gut line, worm-and-wheel set-up with blued steel finely pierced brackets, verge escapement with plain balance without spring, florally pierced oval gilt brass cock, secured by a screw. Signed on the back plate. In very good condition with manuscript historic of the watch and later leather fitted box. Diam. 29 mm.
Notes
Claude Raillard 1er, may have been one of the
signatories to the list of the new articles of
protection submitted to the King in march 1645.
Member of the Juré in 1662 and 1675, he was
established at Quai Pelleterie from 1698 to 1700. In
1665, he supplied a dock to Mazarin for the sum of
450 livres. He died in 1708, and his son, Claude II,
succeeded him, becoming master by patrimony.