Octagonal watch, anonymous, with enamelled dial, Germany, circa 1600 and later. Oval dial with champlevé enamel foliage decoration on a gilt background (small accident), with a central rosette of twelve branches, on a silver background, indicating the hours in Roman numerals around the perimeter, each divided for the half hours. One iron hand; oval gilt brass and iron movement, engraved barrel without fusee, eccentric verge escapement with gilt meeting wheel, blued steel balance wheel, openworke
Octagonal watch, anonymous, with enamelled dial, Germany, circa 1600 and later. Oval dial with champlevé enamel foliage decoration on a gilt background (small accident), with a central rosette of twelve branches, on a silver background, indicating the hours in Roman numerals around the perimeter, each divided for the half hours. One iron hand; oval gilt brass and iron movement, engraved barrel without fusee, eccentric verge escapement with gilt meeting wheel, blued steel balance wheel, openworked and engraved cock, originally set by hog's bristle with openworked and engraved dragon-shaped lever, baluster pillars. Octagonal (modified) glass and gilt brass case with chased bezels, cover bezel held in place by four later screws, elongated oval pendant. 36.5 (without the pendant) x 35mm. Two watches using a dial decoration similar to this one are in the Louvre Museum, see Catherine Cardinal, Les montres et horloges de table du musée du Louvre, tome ii, 2000, 76 and 90.126 3000 - 4000 EUR Result : 4 800EUR Octagonal watch, anonymous, with enamelled dial, Germany, circa 1600 and later. Oval dial with champlevé enamel foliage decoration on a gilt background (small accident), with a central rosette of twelve branches, on a silver background, indicating the hours in Roman numerals around the perimeter, each divided for the half hours. One iron hand; oval gilt brass and iron movement, engraved barrel without fusee, eccentric verge escapement with gilt meeting wheel, blued steel balance wheel, openworked and engraved cock, originally set by hog's bristle with openworked and engraved dragon-shaped lever, baluster pillars. Octagonal (modified) glass and gilt brass case with chased bezels, cover bezel held in place by four later screws, elongated oval pendant. 36.5 (without the pendant) x 35mm. Two watches using a dial decoration similar to this one are in the Louvre Museum, see Catherine Cardinal, Les montres et horloges de table du musée du Louvre, tome ii, 2000, 76 and 90.
