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A Louis XIII gilt-brass clock watch, Nicolas Norry, Gisors, circa 1630

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 EUR

Lot Details

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Description

2½-inch dial engraved to the centre with tulips, single hour hand, the movement with verge and balance escapement, single footed pierced and engraved balance cock, chain fusee to the going train, standing barrel to the striking train with foliate pierced and engraved barrel, numbered and floral engraved outside count wheel striking on a bell, signed on the backplate N Norry A Gisors, the cushion case pierced and engraved to the edge with tulips


Height 4¾in.; Haut. 12cm

Collection Bloch-Pimentel, sold Drouot, Me Etienne Ader, 5th May 1961, Lot 119;

With A La Façon de Venise, Paris, 2012.

Tardy, Dictionnaire des Horlogers Français, 1972, p. 490.

A very similar clock watch with alarm signed Francois Norry A Gisors was sold Aguttes, Paris, 28th September 2022, Lot 25.