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

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

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 500. AN EARLY GILT METAL STACKFREED CLOCK WATCH GERMAN, CIRCA 1580 AND LATER [德國製早期鎏金懷錶備 STACKFREED 彈簧制動機芯,年份約1580及以後].

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AN EARLY GILT METAL STACKFREED CLOCK WATCH GERMAN, CIRCA 1580 AND LATER [德國製早期鎏金懷錶備 STACKFREED 彈簧制動機芯,年份約1580及以後]

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November 12, 03:01 PM GMT

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AN EARLY GILT METAL STACKFREED CLOCK WATCH

GERMAN, CIRCA 1580 AND LATER

[德國製早期鎏金懷錶備 STACKFREED 彈簧制動機芯,年份約1580及以後]


Movement: iron full plate, verge escapement, plain flat balance, stackfreed and striking hammer mounted to the backplate, cylindrical pillars, bell to inside back  

Dial: re-gilded, engraved Roman numerals with half hour divisions between and touch pins above, the centre chased and engraved with flowers and foliage, blued steel floriate hand

Case: re-gilded brass, lid with pierced roundels for the numerals, the centre pierced, chased and engraved with the Virgin Mary and Christ child within a blazing mandorla, inside lid decoratively engraved, bulbous case sides with pierced and engraved scrolling decoration, the back with similarly pierced, chased and engraved decoration depicting Christ crucified to the centre, a skull and cross bones beneath, the whole surrounded by scrolling flowers and foliage 


diameter 52.5mm, length including pendant 65mm


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