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FRANÇOIS LOUIS GODON | A RARE GOLD AND ENAMEL WATCH WITH REVOLUTIONARY DATE INDICATION AND BLUE ENAMEL CHATELAINE CIRCA 1800 [罕有黃金畫琺瑯懷錶備法國共和曆顯示及藍色琺瑯腰鏈，年份約1800]
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June 16, 03:13 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 CHF
Lot Details
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FRANÇOIS LOUIS GODON
A RARE GOLD AND ENAMEL WATCH WITH REVOLUTIONARY DATE INDICATION AND BLUE ENAMEL CHATELAINE
CIRCA 1800
[罕有黃金畫琺瑯懷錶備法國共和曆顯示及藍色琺瑯腰鏈，年份約1800]
• Movement: gilded full plate, cylinder escapement, plain gilt flat balance, hanging barrel, decoratively engraved balance bridge, gilt metal cuvette signed F. L. Godon, Ro. de Camara de S.M.C. (watchmaker to the Catholic King of Spain)
• Dial: white enamel, gilt Arabic numerals, inner Revolutionary date indication with Arabic numerals, blued steel hour and minute hands, blued steel date indication hand, signed F. L. Godon
• Case: gold, the case back and bezel with pale blue enamel depicting Helios driving a horse drawn chariot, case numbered 684, with Paris control marks for 1798-1908 and maker's mark for Joly, with similar gold and blue enamel chatelaine
diameter 56mm
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Antiquorum Geneva, The Sandberg Watch Collection, 31 March - 1 April, 2001, lot 128
The French Revolutionary or Republican Calendar was introduced towards the end of 1793 and lasted until 1805. The twelve months of the year were each divided into thirty days. To compensate for what would otherwise have resulted in a shortage of days to complete a full year cycle, the system introduced five extra (six in a leap year) so-called 'complementary days'. These extra days were added to the end of the revolutionary year. The dial of the present watch is calibrated for the Revolutionary calendar with the date ring running to just 30 rather than 31 days.
Tardy notes in his Dictionnaire des Horlogers Français (1971, vol.1, p.263) that François-Louis Godon was a Master in 1787 and between 1789-90 was based at Rue de Valois-St-Honoré, Paris. Godon was watchmaker to the King of Spain.