Lot 346

Anonym

Ebony and Ivory

An extremely rare pocket watch made of ebony and ivory

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This anonymous master probably had the special watches of the Bronnikov family as a model.
The Bronnikov family is famous for their wooden watches and originally worked in Vjatka in Russia. Ivan (circa 1770-1860), a skillful joiner and turner, was the first Bronnikov mentioned in the records. His son Semyon Ivanovitch (1800-1875) had seven sons and two of them - Mikhail Semyonovitch and Nicolai Semyonovitch - continued his work. Mikhail's son Nicolai Mikhailovitch was the last watchmaker in the family and left Vjatka in 1909 or 1910; it is assumed that he worked for the company of Paul Buhre in Moscow. Important museums such as the Hermitage, the Moscow Clock Industry Research Institute, the Tbilisi Museum of People's Art, the Physikalisch-Mathematischer Salon in Dresden as well as renowned private collections all over the world own timepieces created by members of the Bronnikov family.