POCKET WATCH, SO-CALLED “OIGNON” Late Baroque, Basel, circa 1710/20. The movement signed "AN. ENDERLIN À BÂLE" (Andreas I Enderlin, 1681–1733).

POCKET WATCH, SO-CALLED “OIGNON”

Late Baroque, Basel, circa 1710/20. The movement signed "AN. ENDERLIN À BÂLE" (Andreas I Enderlin, 1681–1733).
Silver case, engraved and partly pierced with scrolling acanthus foliage, grotesques, fruit bouquets and dogs. Gilt engraved dial with white enamel cartouches, Roman hour and Arabic minute numerals. Blued hands. Gilt verge movement with balance, spring-driven movement with fusee and chain. Balance cock decorated with foliate scrolls. Quarter-hour strike on a bell on demand. Movement plate signed "An. Enderlin à Bale". Key-wound from the front.
H 7 cm, Ø 6 cm.
Gilding of the dial rubbed. One minute cartouche restored. Currently in working order.

Alongside the Bury family, the Enderlin family ranked among the most important clockmakers in Basel. A similar pocket watch by Andreas I Enderlin is in the Historisches Museum Basel (inv. no. 2006.89). Another is illustrated in Kägi/Marugg/Vinzens, "Deutschschweizer Uhrmachermeister und ihre Werke vom 14. bis 19. Jahrhundert", 2004, vol. II, p. 629, no. 4.27.5.2.