Johann Khoremann, Augsburg

Johann Khoremann, Augsburg

A RARE GOLD AND ENAMEL PRE-BALANCE SPRING VERGE WATCH

CIRCA 1680

[罕有黃金畫琺瑯懷錶備機軸式擒縱機芯，年份約1680]

• Movement: gilded, verge escapement, plain steel two-arm balance, decoratively pierced and floral engraved balance cock and long foot, worm and wheel set up with blued steel pointer indicating to a silver plate, decoratively blued steel bracket and gate, fusee and chain, cylindrical pillars, signed Johann KhoreMann

• Dial: white enamel chapter ring, Roman numerals with fleur-de-lys half hours between, polychrome enamel painted centre depicting a bouquet of flowers, single turned blued steel hand

• Case: gold and enamel, the back with polychrome enamel painted scene depicting Queen Alcyone imploring Juno, Protectress of Marriage, to Return her Husband King Ceyx, Juno's maid Iris to the background, case band chased and enamelled with flowers and foliage in high relief, inside case back with polychrome enamel painted landscape scene with two figures promenading, the inside of the band in plain turquoise enamel, restored flower-form chased and enamelled pendant, decoratively engraved gold bezel 

diameter 34.5mm

Johann Khorn[e]mann is listed by J. Abeler in Meister der Uhrmacherkunst (1977) as active in Augsburg. At the time of this watch's production, Geneva and Blois were both famous for their decoration of enamel cases and the present watch displays an Augsburgian interpretation of the established styles of those two centres. The scene is taken from Ovid's Mertamorphoses, 11, 578-585. 

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