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Noga Hilton, Geneva, Jun 14, 2003

LOT 387

Jaques Sermand, Geneva,(1640). Exceptional, gold, enamel and faceted rock crystal form watches designed as a cross.

CHF 65,000 - 85,000

EUR 44,000 - 57,000 / USD 50,000 - 66,000

C. Two-body, rock crystal front and back covers mounted in gold bezels with black champlevé enamel, decorated with gold scrolling pattern and white enamel spots, small enameled finial, tulip-shaped enameled pendant.D. Gold, cross-shaped, hinged, with radial Roman hour chapters in the center with half-hour dots, the arms decorated with stylized flowers in translucent red enamel for petals and translucent green for leaves over flinqué engraving. Blued-steel hand. M. Cross-shaped, 24 x 34 mm., gilt brass full plate, fusee and gut-line, short four-wheel train with five-leaf pinions, verge escapement, steel two-arm circular foliot, elongated cock pierced and engraved with flowers secured by a screw, ratchet whel and click mainspring set-up.Signed on the movement.Dim. 55 x 29 mm.Published in the Sandberg book, pp. 372-373.


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Grade:
Case: 3 - 18
Movement: 3*

Good

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

Notes

The dial is reminiscent of an earlier period, and its decoration follows patterns presented in the 'Livre contenant passements de moresques' by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, published in France in the 16th century. A watch made by Sermand in an oval case with rock crystal on both sides, previously in the collection of The King of aples, is in the Louvre Museum, inv. OA 7035.