Lot 230

Esquivillon Frères & DeChoudens, Paris, 113 mm, circa 1790
An exquisite quarter repeating coach clock with alarm
Case: outer case brass/silver, laquered, sound openings, inner case silver, pierced, the edge hand-engraved, rear bell. Dial: enamel. Movm.: full plate movement, signed, gilt, chain/fusee, additional barrels for alarm and strike mechanism, 3 hammers, verge escapement, three-arm brass balance, engraved and pierced balance cock.
The back is decorated with an exquisitely engraved bucolic scene showing two billing doves and a dog before the altar of love as a symbol of fidelity.
This clock is in remarkably good condition and is illustrated and described in "Die Kutschenuhr" (the carriage clock) by Lukas Stolberg, Munich 1993, page 174.
Esquivillon & DeChoudens
Geneva watchmaker Jacques Dechoudens (1728-1801) and brothers Joseph Esquivillon (1714-1798), Jean François Esquivillon (1733-1813) and Gédéon-François Esquivillon (1717-1799) founded a workshop which produced high quality verge pocket watches.
Source: "Esquivillon & De Choudens", http://wansor.vs120138.hl-users.com/Uhrenseite/unten_port_allg_schweiz.php, as of 02/28/2011

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