Important Watches, Wristwatches and C...

Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 24, 1999

LOT 612

Gabriel Aichner, Augsburg or Nurnberg, circa 1640. Fine and rare hour striking automton table clock a cercle tournant.

CHF 40,000 - 50,000

C. A partly gilt, blackamoor in a green painted dress, shows the time on a silverred cercle tournant, applied on a gilt bronze revolving sphere. Standing on three bun-feet the embossed circular gilt copper ogee bases with foliage decoration is surmounted by an open gallery for the bell. D. Silvered horizontal chapter ring with Roma numerals. M. Gilt brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, gilt brass fixed barrel engraved with foliage, a pinion on the revolving arbor driving the kidney cam of the stackfreed, verge escapement the brass balance now fitted with a balance spring with later irregular gilt brass pierced and engraved cock. Striking on a bell, the count wheel sunk in the back plate. The striking train drives the head of the blackamoor who turn from right to left and from left to right, while the clock is striking. Signed on the back plate. Dim. 30 x 14.5 cm.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3

Good
Movement: *31

Transformations

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 4-5

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Notes

A very similar clock from the Musec International d'Horlogerie in La Chaux de Fonds, is described and illustrated by Catherine Cardinal in the catalogue Divots d'Horlogerie - Le Temps et sa Mesure, du Mayen Age d la Renaissance published for the exhibition in Avignon, Palais des Papes, from June to September 1988.