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Geneva, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Du Rhône, Nov 12, 2006

LOT 46

The Triumph of Juno Pierre Pattey (Genève), enamel signed Huaud le puisné fecit, circa 1675. Very fine and important painted on enamel 21K gold single-hand prebalance spring watch. To be sold without reserve

CHF 40,000 - 60,000

EUR 25,000 - 38,000 / USD 32,000 - 48,000

Sold: CHF 56,640

C. Two-body, ?bassine?, deep back with inward edges, back finely painted on enamel depicting Juno in the clouds, two peacocks to her left, with a figure playing a rainbow as if it were a harp, and the figure of Zephyr, representing the wind, the band with four painted vignettes each with a house on a lake in an Alpine setting. Inside a castle with a passing traveler, gold bezel engraved with repeated pattern. D. White enamel, large ring with radial Roman numerals and half hour indexes, center finely painted with Flora holding a bouquet of flowers in one hand and a horn-of-plenty in the other. Blued steel ?poker? hand with counterpoise. M. 33 mm., gilt brass, full plate, Egyptian pillars, fusee and chain, short three-wheel train with five-leaf pinions, verge escapement, circular steel foliot symmetrically pierced and engraved gilt cock secured by a screw, worm-gear and pinion mainspring set-up with silver scale plate. Signed on the movement, case signed Huaud Le puisne Fecit. Diam. 40 mm. Property of a Swiss Collector


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Case: 3-26-61

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Upgraded
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-55-01

Good

Luminous material reapplied

HANDS Original

Notes

Pierre Pattey Master watchmaker, he taught Michel Deluc in 1692 and André Besson in 1698. Les Frères Huaud, Jean-Pierre and Ami Jean-Pierre Huaud (1655-1725) and his younger brother Ami (1657-1724 - also referred to as Amicus) were the sons of Pierre Huaud I, and were both apprenticed to their father. While no signed works of Ami Huaud are known, Jean- Pierre Huaud often signed as follows: "Huaud le puisné fecit" or "Huaud le puiné fecit", and later "Huaud le puisné peintre de son A. E. à Berlin". The two Huaud brothers, Jean-Pierre and Ami, were associated from 1682 to 1688 as Les Frères Huaud, in Geneva. Among the signatures that are found on their work are: "Fratres Huaud pinxerunt", "fratres Huauts", "les frères Huaut", "Les deux frères Huaut fecit", "les frères Huaut pinx.", "Les frères Huaut pt.", "Les frères Huaut fec.", "les deux frères Huaud peint. de son A.E.", "Les deux frères Huaut peintres de son A. E. à Berlin", "Les deux frères Huaud p. de S.A.E. à Berlin", "Les Frères Huaut fec. An 1698". The name is spelt Huaud, or Huaut, and sometimes Huault. In 1686, the envoy of the Great Elector of Brandenburg, Frederick William (1620-1688), tried to enroll various Genevan crafstmen to work with the French Huguenots who had sought refuge in Brandenburg after the Edict of Nantes. At this time, Jean-Pierre and Ami Huaud were appointed painters on enamel to the Court of the Brandenburg Elector, perhaps thanks to the recommendation of their elder brother Pierre II (1647-1698) who had already been at the Elector's Court in 1685. Jean-Pierre and Ami Huaud therefore moved to Berlin in 1686 and only returned to Geneva in 1700.