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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Nov 14, 1993

LOT 27

Jean Paris à Paris, circa 1670. Exceptionally fine filigree gold and diamond-set pair-cased pendant watch.

CHF 80,000 - 100,000

Sold: CHF 80,500

C. Outer: Double body, of delicate floral pattern filigree with applied encrusted minute gold balls. Inner: Plain polished gold, the bezel entirely set with rose-diamonds in silver mounts. D. White enamel on gold, Roman hour mimerais, quarter and half hour marks. Single double ended turned blued-steel hand. M. Gilt full plate, turned vase pillars, fusee with gut, three wheel train with verge escapement, plain polished two-arm steel balance without spring, oval pattern pierced and florally engraved cock secured by a screw, worm wheel set up with delicate blued-steel pierced brackets and silver indicator disc. Signed on the movement. In virtually untouched condition. Diam. 40 mm..


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Jean Paris of Paris, recorded as Maître established in Faubourg St.Germain 1675, subsequently at rue des Fosses. He retired in 1685. The use of filigree work for watch cases would appear to have been employed for only a very short period;from circa 1670 - 1690. The few known surviving watches have a similar decoration, and are all French with one exception, which has an English movement (see Antiquorum, Hong-Kong, May, 1992, Lot 222). The technique vas more widely used in Spain for jewellery, and it may be that a specialist goldsmith worked in Paris for a short period. This particular example is greatly enhanced by having a diamond-set bezel. This watch is absolutely in perfect condition with no signs of any 'year whatsoever.