The Sandberg Watch Collection

Hotel Richemond, Geneva, Mar 31, 2001

LOT 331

Henry Grendon at the Exchange, London, circa 1630.Very fine and rare silver gilt, single-hand pendant form watch with concealed dial, in the shape of a tulip.

CHF 25,000 - 30,000

USD 15,000 - 18,000

C. Two-body, cast, chased with three petals of which one forms the front cover, tulip pendant, loose ring.D. Silver, hinged, oval, Roman hour chapter with quarter hour markers, engraved inside and outside with tulips and daisies. Blued-steel 'tulip' hand. M. 22 x 26 mm, gilt brass full plate, Egyptian pillars, fusee and gut-line for the going train, verge escapement, two-arm brass circular foliot, small elongated and irregular gilt brass pinned cock, pierced and engraved with asymmetrical flower and foliage, worm and wheel set-up.Signed on the movement.Dim. 42 x 25 mm. Published in the Sandberg book, pages 364-365.


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Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3 - 6
Movement: 4 - 22*
Dial: 3 - 01

Notes

Grendon Henrylisted by Baillie as having been active in London, he joined the Clockmakers' Company in 1640. Some of his works are preserved in the Victoria and Albert Museum, S. Kensington, in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.