Important Wristwatches, Watches & Clocks
Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 14, 1990
LOT 168
Gorillon à Paris, circa 1640. Very fine silver gilt brass mounted watch in the form of a cross.
CHF 30,000 - 40,000
Sold: CHF 43,700
Three body case, the cover and the back finely engraved with a crucifix, and outer figures of Saints, animais, flowers and the instruments of the Passion, the gilt bronze mounted central body with a similar decoration.Very fine dial with Roman numerals engraved on the silver dial-plate and decorated overall with flowers, Angels and figures of Saints. Blued steel single hand. GiIt brass full plate movement in form of a cross, with "amphores" pillars, fusee and gut line, the mainspring tension adjusted by means of a click work, three wheel train with five leaf pinions, verge escapement with a plain two armed balance wheel foliot, pinned pear shape single foot gilt brass cock, pierced and engraved with strawberry flowers. Signed on the back plate. In very good condition, restored. Dim. 55x27 mm.
