Bobillier, à Besançon

Property from the Masterworks of Time Collection

Bobillier, à Besançon

A silver oignon verge watch with alarm

Circa 1700

• Movement: gilded full plate, verge escapement, plain flat balance, decoratively pierced and engraved balance bridge, fusee and chain, Egyptian pillars, silver regulation plate with blued steel rack, decoratively engraved alarm barrel, alarm hammer striking a bell to the inside case back, signed Bobillier, à Besançon

• Dial: white enamel chapter ring raised at the hours with blue Roman numerals, inner quarter hour divisions, the dial centre with gilded engraved alarm disc, single turned blued steel hand, two female winding apertures to chapter ring for alarm and going trains

• Case: silver, the back chased and engraved with scrolling foliage, birds and dogs, the band pierced for sound emission, bezel chased and engraved with foliage, indistinctpunch mark inside back beneath bell

• Key: decorative pierced chased and masked male key

diameter 58mm