106th Auction

2022/5/21

Lot 429

Christian Gottfried Hahn

A German pocket watch of museum quality, with moon phases, date and auxiliary seconds

Sold

estimated
13.00020.000 €
Price realized
10.000 €
specific features
Case
Silver.
Dial
Enamel.
Movement
Full plate movement, open barrel, cylinder escapement, flat steel balance, pierced balance bridge with regulator scale.
Case no.D14
Diam.59 mm
Circa1800
Ctry.Germany
Wt.115 g


The white enamel dial has a main chapter ring with black Arabic numerals indicating the hours and the minutes. Three subsidiary dials with red lettering display the moon phases, the date and the seconds.


The brothers Hahn, Christian Gottfried (* 1769), Christoph Matthäus (1767-1833), Johann Georg, and Immanuel, worked in the workshop of their father Philipp Matthäus Hahn of Onstmettingen, Kornwestheim, and Echterdingen. Christian Gottfried and Christoph Matthäus went on to become "Hofmechanikus" (court mechanicians) in Stuttgart. Christian Gottfried was later recorded in Berlin, Germany, and in North America.
The book "Philipp Matthäus Hahn 1739-1790" was published in two volumes by the Württembergisches Landesmuseum Stuttgart and Christian Vaeterlein in 1989; Vol. I is entitled "catalogue" ("Katalog"), Vol. II is entitled "essays" ("Aufsätze"). Vol. I shows a watch with a similar dial on page 505. It was made by Christian Gottfried Hahn's father Philipp Matthäus Hahn in 1775.