David Bouquet, London | A rare silver and rock crystal scallop-form verge watch, Circa 1640
Auction Closed
December 6, 09:17 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Dial: silver, Roman numerals with quarter hour divisions to the ring beneath, center scene engraved with a castle and a river in the background and man lying next to trees on the riverbank in the foreground, turned gilt floriate-form hand, engraved gilt metal border
Caliber: gilt full plate, verge escapement, decoratively pierced and engraved screwed-on silver balance cock and irregular foot with an angel at the neck, plain flat steel balance, worm and wheel set-up with silver indication plate, Egyptian pillars, fusee and gut line, signed D Bouquet At London
Case: engraved silver bezels with leaf shaped pendant, scallop-form rock crystal covers with radiating facets
Size: 28.5 mm diameter
Box: no
Papers: no
Marryat Collection
Sandberg Collection
Antiquorum Geneva, The Sandberg Watch Collection, 31 March 2001, lot 248
Private American Collector
H. Marryat, Watches, Henlein to Tompion, 1938, pp. 21-22, fig. B3
David Bouquet, a French Huguenot émigré, escaped persecution in France by relocating to England. He is believed to have originally been a member of the Blacksmiths' Company in London and in October 1632 was admitted to the Clockmakers' Company as a Free Brother. Among his apprentices was his son Solomon, who was freed in December 1651. A very fine maker, David Bouquet is understood to have worked at Blackfriars until 1662 and he died in 1665, a year before the Great Fire of London.