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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Nov 14, 1993

LOT 30

Goullons à Marseille and Huaud le Puisné Fecit, 1690. A fine 20 carat gold and enamel watch case, with slightly earlier movement and dial.

CHF 120,000 - 160,000

Sold: CHF 160,250

C. Double body bassine form, the back exterior enamelled vwith Juno and Isis, the band with landscape vignettes, intersected by a floral panel painted en grisaille and signed at 6 o'clock, interior with a classical ruin in a landscape after Gabriel Perelle. Loose ring pendant on later gold supporting plate(some hair lines and small damages). Leaf pattern engraved gold split bezel for the glass. D. From Blois, in the manner of Robert Vauquer, enamelled on gold, with outer ring for Roman hour numerals, half and quarter hour divisions, centre decorated in polychrome colours with Rinaldo and Amida. Single bluedsteel tulip hand. M. Circular gilt full plate with turned halluster pillars, gut fusee, three wheel train with verge escapement, plain three-arm brass balance, (later) oval section pierced and florally engraved cock secured by a screw (old repairs to table) worm-and-wheel set-up with blued-steel hrackets and silver indicating disc.Signed on the movement and case. In good condition, with alterations as stated. Diam. 40mm.


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Goullons à Marseille is apparently not recorded, although an outstanding watch signed Goullons à Paris with a portrait of Cardinal Richelieu, is in the collection of the Chaux-de-Fonds Museum. Judging from the style of this movement it would certainly seem to be of later date, and it may be possible that Goullons or his son subsequently settled in Marseille. Jean-Pierre Huaud, the second son of Pierre Huaud I, vas born in Geneva in 1665, and was responsible for tutoring his brother, Ami, in the art of painting on enamel. Few watches bearing his signature alone survive, and when Pound, carry the suffix 'puisné' The majority of his work \ vas carried out with Ami when they worked for the Elector of Brandenburg in Berlin. He died in 1723. The date on the case, although indistinct, would appear to be 1690 or 1692. The movement and dial date from approximately 20 years earlier. The scene of Juno and Isis is after an engraving by Michel Dorigny from a painting by Simon Vouet ( 1590 - 1649). A watch case with the identical subject, and also by J-P Huaud is preserved in the Musée du Petit-Palais, Paris, inv.no.243.