Hentschel à Strasbourg

A FINE GOLD SINGLE CASED VERGE WATCH THE CASE WITH MANUAL ASTRONOMICAL CALENDAR AND INDICATIONS FOR LENGTH OF DAY & NIGHT AND SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC CIRCA 1790

• Movement: gilded full plate, verge escapement, decoratively pierced and engraved balance bridge, square baluster pillars, fusee and chain, signed Hentschel à Strasbourg
• Dial: white enamel, Roman numerals, outer Arabic minute ring, aperture for winding, gold filigree hands
• Case: gold, the back with central rotating disc marked within a shell-form motif with the days of the week each indicating to a silver date disc beneath, outer rotating ring with four apertures indicating months and their length, together with corresponding sign of the zodiac and indications for lengths of day and night, the bezels engraved with floral bouquets separated by a scrolling ribbon-form motif, inside back with case maker's mark AIG and with French gold mark
diameter 44mm

Provenance:
Hentschel à Strasbourg is listed by Tardy in his "Dictionnaire des Horlogers Français" (1971, vol.1, p.296).