J. Bock
A RARE SILVER AND GILT-METAL OVAL ASTRONOMICAL CALENDAR WATCH WITH ALARM CIRCA 1635
• Movement: gilded full plate, verge escapement, decoratively pierced and engraved pinned-on floral balance cock, blued steel wheel and click set-up with screwed-on cock in the form of an ostrich's head and neck surrounded by foliage, border of the backplate decorated with engraved scrolling flowers and foliage, fusee and gut line, decoratively pierced and engraved alarm barrel, vase-shaped pillars, signed J. Bock f
• Dial: gilded and engraved with scrolling flowers and foliage, the lower time dial with inner rotating disc for alarm indication mounted to the edge with a blued steel bug indicating the time upon a silver chapter ring with Roman numerals, short hand to the centre for setting alarm time, the top of the dial with silver chapter ring for date, inner ring calibrated for month to the dial plate and with indication for their number of days, subsidiary dial for days indicated by their corresponding ruling planet to the left and moon-phases to the right with small square aperture above for moon age
• Case: oval silver, front lid with engraved armorials, the back plain, gilded engraved bezels, the band decoratively pierced for sound emission and engraved with scrolling flowers and foliage, gilded turned terminal with boss to the base, floriate-form pendant with plain ring, the inside lid discreetly stamped with later hallmarks to the centre, bell mounted to the inside case back
length including pendant and terminal 72mm, width 47mm
Provenance:
Antiquorum Geneva, 10 April 1983, lot 236
Antiquorum Geneva, The Sandberg Watch Collection, 31 March - 1 April, 2001, lot 252
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A RARE SILVER AND GILT-METAL OVAL ASTRONOMICAL CALENDAR WATCH WITH ALARM CIRCA 1635
• Movement: gilded full plate, verge escapement, decoratively pierced and engraved pinned-on floral balance cock, blued steel wheel and click set-up with screwed-on cock in the form of an ostrich's head and neck surrounded by foliage, border of the backplate decorated with engraved scrolling flowers and foliage, fusee and gut line, decoratively pierced and engraved alarm barrel, vase-shaped pillars, signed J. Bock f
• Dial: gilded and engraved with scrolling flowers and foliage, the lower time dial with inner rotating disc for alarm indication mounted to the edge with a blued steel bug indicating the time upon a silver chapter ring with Roman numerals, short hand to the centre for setting alarm time, the top of the dial with silver chapter ring for date, inner ring calibrated for month to the dial plate and with indication for their number of days, subsidiary dial for days indicated by their corresponding ruling planet to the left and moon-phases to the right with small square aperture above for moon age
• Case: oval silver, front lid with engraved armorials, the back plain, gilded engraved bezels, the band decoratively pierced for sound emission and engraved with scrolling flowers and foliage, gilded turned terminal with boss to the base, floriate-form pendant with plain ring, the inside lid discreetly stamped with later hallmarks to the centre, bell mounted to the inside case back
length including pendant and terminal 72mm, width 47mm
Provenance:
Antiquorum Geneva, 10 April 1983, lot 236
Antiquorum Geneva, The Sandberg Watch Collection, 31 March - 1 April, 2001, lot 252
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