The Sandberg Watch Collection

Hotel Richemond, Geneva, Mar 31, 2001

LOT 213

Pierre Duhamel, Geneva, circa 1660.Extremely fine and rare, 22 ct. gold, enamel and rock crystal, single-hand, lady's pendant watch.

CHF 80,000 - 100,000

USD 50,000 - 60,000

C. Double-body, 'bassine fermée', the front and back covers in carved rock crystal, divided into 12 equal radial sectors and mounted in gold frames painted on enamel with flowers and leaves, short pendant, loose ring.D. Enamel on gold, outer white enamel chapter ring with radial Roman chapters and half-hour divisions, the centre with turquoise champlevé enamel decorated with gold flowers flanked by a bird and a ferret. Single steel hand. M. Hinged, gilt brass full plate, unusual lyre-shaped pillars, fusee and chain, short four-wheel train with five leaf pinions, three-spoke arched wheels, verge escapement, steel two-arm circular foliot, elongated gilt brass cock pierced and engraved with floral decoration seured by a screw, worm and wheel mainspring setting.Signed on the back plate.Diam. 30 mm. Published in the Sandberg book, pages 62-63.


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Case: 2 - 18
Movement: 2*

Very good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 2 - 01

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Provenance: previously in the collection of The King of Naples.Pierre Duhamel II (1630-1686)was born in Marchenoir, Loir-et-Cher (France), the son of Pierre. Settled in Geneva where he became Master in 1654 and married the same year. He had seven children, four daughters and three sons. He made astronomical watches, and also watches in enamelled and rock crystal cases, or watches designed as various animals. He had as pupil Abraham Durand, in 1656. He became a citizen of Geneva in 1661. In 1675, he apprenticed his son Barthélémy for five years to Abraham Bobinet, Master watchmaker bornin Geneva, and in 1679 to Pierre Urban, watchmaker born in Geneva. His son Pierre III studied at Etienne Bastard's, in 1676.The 'Dictionnaire des Horlogers Genevois', by Osvaldo Patrizzi, Antiquorum Editions, Geneva, 1998