Peter Zolling, Hamburg

A SILVER PAIR CASED VERGE WATCH WITH ALARM CIRCA 1700

• Movement: verge escapement, plain flat balance with spring, decoratively pierced balance cock engraved with scrolling foliage and birds, silver regulation plate, square baluster pillars, fusee and chain, the alarm barrel decoratively pierced and engraved with a putto's head and scrollwork, striking a bell to the inside case back, signed Peter Zolling, Hamburg
• Dial: silver champlevé, Roman numerals filled with black wax, interspersed with raised fleur-de-lys, inner ring with quarter hour divisions, inner rotating disc with a blued steel bug indicating the time to its edge, central turned blued steel hand for setting alarm against Arabic numeral ring, central decorative rosette
• Cases: silver inner, the band decoratively pierced for sound emission and engraved with hounds, a boar, serpents and fantastical beasts, plain silver outer case with square hinge
diameter of outer case 59mm, inner case 49mm

Provenance:
J. Abeler notes in Meister der Uhrmacherkunst (1977, p.682) that Peter Zollling was baptised in Hamburg in 1672. For another watch by Peter Zolling, see Sotheby's London, The Chester Beatty Collection Part I, 3 December 1962, lot 14.