Mattheus Hallaÿcher, Augsburg

AN EXTREMELY RARE GIMBAL MOUNTED PENDULUM WATCH MOVEMENT IN LATER SILVER AND SILVER-GILT SPHERICAL CASE MOVEMENT CIRCA 1680 CASE PROBABLY 19TH CENTURY

• Movement: gilded full plate, domed weighted backplate with pierced apertures to accommodate fusee and barrel, decoratively engraved border, verge escapement with short brass bob pendulum, unusually tapered pillars with decorative engraving, chain fusee, signed Mattheus Hallaÿcher, Augusta (Augsburg)
• Dial: gilt-brass, Roman chapter ring with half hour divisions, centre decoratively engraved with stylised scrolling foliage
• Case: later silver two-part with gilded interior, spherically shaped, the movement suspended within steel gimbals, bayonet-type closure, the exterior of the case fully engraved with stylised flower heads and geometric motifs
diameter 54mm

Provenance:
Bernard Franck Collection, Paris

Collection of Dr. E. Gschwind, Basel

Antiquorum Geneva, 23 October 1999, lot 1