Lot 182

Kinable à Paris

An attractive collection of 2 gold pocket watches, 1 gold hunting case pocket watch and 1 ensemble with gold enamel decoration
An ornamental ensemble, consisting of a thin gold enamel pocket watch with floral champlevé enamel, eccentric dial and cylinder escapement with corresponding gold enamel chatelaine

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Engraved, undulating lines divide the eccentric bezel and the back in 16 segments each; the segments are filled with engraved flower tendrils with polychrome enamelling on black ground. The elaborate champlevé décor is repeated in the matching chatelaine, which is equipped with a belt hook and a fastening pin.

Josef Dieudonné Kinable was born around 1764 near Ivoz-Ramet close to Liège. He went to Paris in 1781, where he was apprenticed as a watch and clockmaker and also worked during the French Revolution. Kinable was best known for his mostly lyre-shaped clocks decorated with Sevres porcelain. He signed his clocks "D.D. Kinable", later just "Kinable". The dials were mostly by Joseph Coteau (1740-1801) or Etienne Gobin (Dubuisson) (1731-1815).
Dieudonné Kinable died on October 10, 1832.
Some of Kinable's works are in the State Rooms at Buckingham Palace, in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs François Duesberg and the Walters Art Museum.
Source: www.watch-wiki.org/index.php?title=Kinable,_Josef_Dieudonn%C3%A9, as of 10/29/2021