TAVERNIER À PARIS | A RARE GOLD DOUBLE DIALLED CALENDAR WATCH WITH MOON PHASES AND MANUAL YEAR MEMENTO DIAL, DUMB QUARTER REPEATING AND À TOC CIRCA 1760
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July 14, 12:35 PM GMT
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TAVERNIER À PARIS
A RARE GOLD DOUBLE DIALLED CALENDAR WATCH WITH MOON PHASES AND MANUAL YEAR MEMENTO DIAL, DUMB QUARTER REPEATING AND À TOC
CIRCA 1760
gilded full plate, verge escapement, plain three-arm steel balance, fusee and chain, dumb repeating, front dial white enamel, Roman numerals, Arabic outer minute ring, aperture for winding, diamond-set hands, back dial gilded with linear engine-turning, central chapter ring for days of the week with diamond-set indication hand, aperture for moon phases at 12 o'clock, year aperture at 2 o'clock, month with corresponding number of days at 4 o'clock, regulation index at 6 o'clock, aperture for date at 8 o'clock and manually set indication for leap year cycle at 9 o'clock, signed to the edge of the dial plate, gold case, calendar bezel engraved with symbols of science, hunting and love, the front bezel engraved with flowers and foliage, pulse piece at 8 o'clock, Paris discharge mark for Eloi Brichard (1756-1762) to the stem
diameter 48mm
Antiquorum Geneva, The Sandberg Watch Collection, 31 March - 1 April 2001, lot 30
The indications to the calendar dial are all geared to the movement and advance mechanically with the exception of the year aperture and leap year cycle indicator which must be manually advanced each year.
Tardy notes in his book, Dictionnaire des Horlogers Français, that Jean-Pierre Tavernier was a Master in 1746 and was 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). For another double dialled watch with similar layout to the calendar indications signed by Jean-Pierre's son, Louis, see Sotheby's New York, Masterpieces from the Time Museum, Part 1, 2 December 1999, lot 43; the latter watch is also illustrated in G. Daniels, C. Clutton, Watches, 1965, figs.510-511.