Masterworks of Time: Abraham Louis Breguet, Horologist Extraordinaire 「時間傑作——阿伯拉罕・路易・寶璣:鐘錶鬼才」
Masterworks of Time: Abraham Louis Breguet, Horologist Extraordinaire 「時間傑作——阿伯拉罕・路易・寶璣:鐘錶鬼才」
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June 16, 02:08 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 CHF
Lot Details
Description
BOUQUET, LONDON
[Bouquet,倫敦]
A SILVER AND ROCK CRYSTAL SCALLOP-FORM VERGE WATCH
CIRCA 1640
[銀鑲水晶花瓣形懷錶備機軸式擒縱機芯,年份約1640]
• Movement: gilded full plate, verge escapement, decoratively pierced and engraved screwed-on silver balance cock and irregular foot with an angel at the neck, plain flat steel balance, worm and wheel set-up with silver indication plate, Egyptian pillars, fusee and gut line, signed D Bouquet At London
• Dial: silver, Roman numerals, quarter hour divisions to the ring beneath, centre engraved with a castle and a river in the foreground, turned gilded floriate-form hand, engraved gilt metal border
• Case: engraved silver bezels, rock crystal covers of scallop-form with radiating facets, shaped pendent, turned terminal
length including terminal 42.5mm, width 30mm
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Marryat Collection
Sandberg Collection
Antiquorum Geneva, The Sandberg Watch Collection, 31 March 2001, lot 248
H. Marryat, Watches, Henlein to Tompion, 1938, pp. 21-22, fig. B3
David Bouquet, a French Huguenot émigré, is believed to have originally been a member of the Blacksmiths' Company and in October 1632 was admitted to the Clockmakers' Company as a Free Brother. Among his apprentices was his son Solomon, who was freed in December 1651. A very fine maker, David Bouquet is understood to have worked at Blackfriars until 1662 and he died in 1665, a year before the Great Fire of London.
Owners of watches by David Bouquet in the 17th Century appear to have had rather an unfortunate proclivity for losing their watches. Britten, in Old Clocks and Watches and Their Makers, lists three such losses mentioned in the London Gazette; one advertisement from 10 January 1680 states: "Lost lately a steel watch, finely cut and the work of it made by Bouquet, in a black shagreen case. Whoever hath found the same, if they bring it to Mr. Michael Scrimpshire, Goldsmith, at the sign of the Golden Lyon in Fleet St., shall have 20s reward."