Lot 171

Fres Veigneur

A rare Geneva pocket watch with French tide indicator

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The dial has a 2 x 6 hour counter for the indication of low and high tide in addition to the usual 12-hour display and auxiliary seconds. It is finely polychrome painted and shows two winged putti and a dove's nest.

Between 1770 and 1796 Isaac and Jean Marc Veigneur had a manufactory which produced high quality musical pocket watches and automatons with repetition as well as skeleton watches.
From 1796 to 1802 they were in partnership with Louis Ceret, one of the two directors of the "Manufacture Royale de Montres à Ferney" founded by the philosopher Voltaire. During this period the company traded under the name "Veigneur Frères & Louis Ceret".