Collector's Pocket Watches, Wristwatc...

Noga Hilton, Geneva, Apr 12, 2003

LOT 493

St. John the Baptist baptizing the ChristAdam Glück, Augsburg, dated 1675.Very fine single hand pre-balance spring rock crystal watch.

CHF 40,000 - 50,000

EUR 28,000 - 35,000 / USD 30,000 - 37,000

C. Single piece of rock crystal formed as a cross, gilt finial, swivel pendant, loose ring, gilt hinged bezel with faceted rock crystal. D. Silver, convex, champlevé Roman numerals, center engraved with St. John the Baptist baptizing the Christ. Single blued steel "arrow" hand. M. Cross-shaped, hinged, gilt brass, baluster pillars, fusee and chain, four-wheel train with the center wheel set in the center, verge escapement, 3-arm brass balance, blued steel flat balance spring, irregular piercednd engraved balance cock. Signed on the movement. Diam. 85 x 41 mm


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3
Movement: 3 - 17*
Dial: 3- 05

Notes

Adam GlückWas a well known Augsburg watchmaker in the middle of the seventeenth century. The current watch is unusual as it is dated. A very nice tulip-form watch by him is in the Musée National de la Renaissance (inv. E.Cl. 20707).