The Sandberg Watch Collection

Hotel Richemond, Geneva, Mar 31, 2001

LOT 248

David Bouquet At London, circa 1640.Very fine and rare silver and rock crystal single-hand lobed pendant watch.

C. Two-body, 'fermée' type, eight lobes on cover and back, mounted to a small hinged and engraved silver frame, fixed silver pendant and small finial. D. Silver, champlevé radial Roman chapters with half-hour markers and inner quarter-hour ring, the centre engraved with a town scene, a tree and fisherman in the foreground, engraved gilt border. Elaborate gilt brass hands. M. 24 mm o, hinged, gilt brass full plate, narrow Egyptian pillars, fusee and gut-line for the going train, verge escapement,two-arm iron circular foliot, elongated silver cock, pierced and engraved with asymmetrical floral decoration and a figure of a winged cherub, worm and wheel set-up with silver plate.Signed on the back plate.Diam 29 mm. Published in the Sandberg book, pages 72-73.