Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Oct 04, 2009

LOT 320

Cherier a Paris. Made circa 1770. Fine and rare, Louis XVI gilt bronze and white marble 8-day going, hour and half-hour striking mantel clock.

C. Drum case housing the movement raised on a fluted pillaster, surmounted by a fruiting vine issuing from a basket, flanked on either side by putti, one holding a garland of flowers, the other a sheaf of wheat, fluted outswept base, flaming urn at the front, white marble base rasied on six toupie feet. D. White enamel, convex, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and Arabic five-minute numerals, regulation arbour above 12. Pierced and engraved gilt brass hands. M. 88 mm, gilt brass, with going barrels both for the going and the striking trains, anchor escapement, brass bob pendulum with silk suspension, striking the hours and half-hours on a bell with count wheel on the back plate. Dial and movement signed. Dim. 33 x 22 x 17 cm.