Fine Watches Including Masterworks of Time, Collector's Watches
Fine Watches Including Masterworks of Time, Collector's Watches
Property from the Masterworks of Time Collection
Bareiht Menadier
A silver single cased verge watch with indications for date, month, phase and age of the moon, ruling planet and periods of the day Circa 1700
Lot Closed
September 16, 03:08 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Masterworks of Time Collection
Bareiht Menadier
A silver single cased verge watch with indications for date, month, phase and age of the moon, ruling planet and periods of the day
Circa 1700
• Movement: gilded full plate, verge escapement, flat three-arm balance with short spring, blued steel wheel and click, small silver regulation disc, broad cock decoratively pierced and engraved with flowers and stems, similarly decorated screwed-on foot, fusee and chain, movement signedBareiht Menadier
• Dial: gilded with stippled ground, three silver chapter rings with blued steel hands for date, time and moon age, aperture to reveal the moon phases, three further apertures for ruling planets with their corresponding signs, month with engraved seasonal vignettes and periods of the day with the changing sky
• Case: plain silver case, case back with shuttered winding aperture, pendant with stirrup-form bow, case maker's mark DC incuse
diameter 52mm
Bareiht Menadier is listed by O. Patrizzi in Dictionnaire des Horlogers Genevois, p. 272. Watches with very similar dial configurations but signed by different makers are known, see Sotheby's: Masterworks of Time Part I, 2 July 2019, lot 37 & Masterworks of Time Part III, 11 November 2019, lot 60 (the latter signed Owen Robinson & Charles Fredman, Napoli). Interestingly, at least 3 examples of similar watches (including that from Masterworks Part I) are known to bear the signature Daniel Quare, presumably in an attempt to take advantage of the English maker's prestige and reputation.