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

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 518. A GOLD DOUBLE ENAMEL DIALLED DUMB QUARTER REPEATING CENTRE SECONDS ASTRONOMICAL WATCH WITH CALENDAR, MOON PHASES AND INDICATIONS FOR EQUATION OF TIME CIRCA 1780, NO. 1004 [ 黃金雙琺瑯錶盤二問無聲報時天文懷錶，備日曆、月相及時間等式顯示，年份約1780，編號1004].

Tavernier à Paris

A GOLD DOUBLE ENAMEL DIALLED DUMB QUARTER REPEATING CENTRE SECONDS ASTRONOMICAL WATCH WITH CALENDAR, MOON PHASES AND INDICATIONS FOR EQUATION OF TIME CIRCA 1780, NO. 1004 [ 黃金雙琺瑯錶盤二問無聲報時天文懷錶，備日曆、月相及時間等式顯示，年份約1780，編號1004]

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Tavernier à Paris

A GOLD DOUBLE ENAMEL DIALLED DUMB QUARTER REPEATING CENTRE SECONDS ASTRONOMICAL WATCH WITH CALENDAR, MOON PHASES AND INDICATIONS FOR EQUATION OF TIME

CIRCA 1780, NO. 1004

[ 黃金雙琺瑯錶盤二問無聲報時天文懷錶，備日曆、月相及時間等式顯示，年份約1780，編號1004]

• Movement: gilded full plate, cylinder escapement, fusee and chain, polished steel hammers repeating à toc, signed and numbered twice to movement rim Tavernier no. 1004 and Tavernier à Paris no. 1004

• Dials: first dial - white enamel, Roman numerals, Arabic minute ring, centre seconds, outermost ring with month length and indication for equation of time beneath, signed Tavernier à Paris • second dial - white enamel, days of the week to the centre, apertures for moon-phases, year, month with indication for its duration, date, subsidiary dial for division of the day into four parts, regulator arc at 6 o'clock

• Case: gold, decoratively chased and engraved bezels heightened with flowers in blue and green enamel with opaque white stringing, gold plunge pendant with French control mark

diameter 45.5mm

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Antiquorum Hong Kong, 24 May 1982, lot 119

Tardy notes in his book, Dictionnaire des Horlogers Français, that Jean-Pierre Tavernier was a Master in 1746 and recorded at the Rue de Bucy, Paris, in 1748. Tavernier died at the age of 81 in 1796 (see op. cit. 1972, Vol.II, p.607). Tavernier's son Louis (1754-1840) is known to have produced similar double dialled watches to his father. Louis is recorded as a Master in 1788 and was made Horloger to the Duc d'Orléans in 1790. A similar double dialled watch by Tavernier, numbered 1111, may be found at the Patek Philippe Museum, Geneva and is illustrated in P. Friess, The Emergence of the Portable Watch, Patek Philippe Museum, Vol. IV, p.247.