The Sandberg Watch Collection

Hotel Richemond, Geneva, Mar 31, 2001

LOT 14

Duhard à Bourdeaux, circa 1710.Fine gilt metal, leather-covered Louis XIV single-hand 'oignon' alarm watch.

C. Double-body, bezel and back covered with leather, pierced with roundels. D. Gilded, champlevé with Roman chapters and quarter-hour divisions, concentric revolving alarm disc with Arabic numerals, engraved in the centre with foliage, blued-steel 'fleur de lis' pointer indicating time. Blued-steel alarm hand. M. 43.3 mm o, hinged gilt brass full plate with Egyptian pillars, two-train, fusee with chain, verge escapement, plain steel three-arm balance, short flat balance spring, rack and pinion rgulator, large Louis XIV cock pierced and engraved with inhabited foliage. Pierced and engraved alarm fixed barrel driving four-wheel steel train striking on a bell.Signed on the back plate.Diam. 57 mm. Published in the Sandberg book, page 106-107.