Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong, Jul 10, 2005

LOT 123

P.yuer, A Florence, circa 1700. Very fine and rare, brass, silver and enamel, pair-cased, single-hand ?oignon? watch with alarm.

C. Outer: two-body, overlaid with chased and engraved silver,back with a painted on enamel portrait of the Emperor Joseph I1674-1711) surrounded by an applied silver plaque decoratedwith two figures and the Habsburg crown above. Framing them,a silver-overlaid band with four vignettes representing battlescenes, the bezel decorated with foliage and flowers, squarehinge. Inner: two-body, 'bassine', the band pierced andengraved with flowers and foliage, polished back, short, roundpendant. D. Silver, champlevé with Roman chapters, diamondhalf-hour marks, concentric silver revolving alarm disc withArabic numerals, with blued-steel fleur-de-lys pointer indicatingthe time. Blued-steel alarm hand. M. 39.6 mm, hinged gilt brassfull plate with turned vase pillars, two-train, fusee and chain,verge escapement, plain steel three-arm balance, double-footedcock, pierced and engraved with asymmetrical foliage, regulatorpointer protruding from beneath a semi-circular blued-steelguard below the bridge, wheel and click set-up. Pierced andengraved fixed barrel for the alarm driving four-wheel steeltrain, striking on a bell.Signed on the movement.Diam. 60 mm.