Masterworks of Time: Splendours for the East 「時間傑作：西器東傳」

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 522. A FINE AND RARE GOLD SINGLE CASED ASTRONOMICAL CYLINDER WATCH WITH CALENDAR, PERIODS OF THE DAY, DEAD CENTRE SECONDS AND HALF-SECOND BEATING BALANCE CIRCA 1800 [ 罕有黃金天文懷錶，備日曆、晝夜顯示及半秒擺輪，年份約1800].

Hahn à Echterdingen

A FINE AND RARE GOLD SINGLE CASED ASTRONOMICAL CYLINDER WATCH WITH CALENDAR, PERIODS OF THE DAY, DEAD CENTRE SECONDS AND HALF-SECOND BEATING BALANCE CIRCA 1800 [ 罕有黃金天文懷錶，備日曆、晝夜顯示及半秒擺輪，年份約1800]

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November 12, 03:24 PM GMT

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Hahn à Echterdingen

A FINE AND RARE GOLD SINGLE CASED ASTRONOMICAL CYLINDER WATCH WITH CALENDAR, PERIODS OF THE DAY, DEAD CENTRE SECONDS AND HALF-SECOND BEATING BALANCE

CIRCA 1800

[ 罕有黃金天文懷錶，備日曆、晝夜顯示及半秒擺輪，年份約1800]

• Movement: gilded full plate, cylinder escapement, large half-second beating five-arm flat brass balance, large and unusual decoratively pierced and engraved circular balance bridge with central regulation sector, multi-faceted red endstone, the coils of the mainspring going barrel exposed within an aperture to the backplate, cylindrical pillars, signed Hahn Echterdingen

• Dial: white enamel, three subsidiary dials for time with Roman numerals and Arabic quarter hour divisions, date combined with months and indication for their length, periods of the day and night combined with days of the week represented by their planetary symbols, signed Hahn à Echter Dingen

• Case: pink gold, polished with moulded bezels, gilt-metal bow

diameter 62mm

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Antiquorum Geneva, 12 November 2006, lot 14

The brothers Hahn: Christoph Matthäus (1767-1833), Johann Georg (c.1772-c.1813), Christian Gottfried (1769) and Immanuel (1773-1833) worked for their father Matthäus Hahn (1739-1790). An important figure in the history of German horology, Matthäus Hahn, who was also a clergyman, pioneered the use of the cylinder escapement in Germany and was renowned for his astronomical and calendar clocks. Highly influential, he had many pupils including Jacob Auch. Matthäus' sons Christian and Christoph became "hofmechanikus" - court mechanicians.