Jean Pierre Huguenin & fils

A splendid Neuchâtel Louis XVI bracket clock with quarter hour/hour strike and quarter repeater

Sold

estimated

2.500—3.500 €

Price realized

3.000 €

specific features

Case

Walnut veneer, painted, ochre coloured surface with polychrome flowers. Bronze mountings and ornaments: volutes, garlands rocailles and acanthus. Glazed front door and pendulum aperture with bronze mountings depicting war trophies. Curved bell top with 2 concealed bells and 4 hammers, surmounted by an urn finial, height 700 mm. Later matching curved bracket, height 350 mm.

Dial

Enamel.

Movement

Rectangular brass full plate movement, 2 barrels, on reverse side fine matted applied rack strike levers, verge escapement, silk suspended short pendulum.

Diam.1050 mm

Circa1780

Ctry.Switzerland

This Neuchâtel Louis XVI bracket clock has cast bronze mountings and a delicate floral décor in red, blue and green against an ochre ground. The enamel dial has Roman hours, Arabic minutes and finely cut, engraved and gilt hands. The high-quality quarter repeating brass plate movement with verge escapement is signed on the back: "J. P. Huguenin à la Chaux de Fonds". The striking mechanism strikes three quarters and the hours "en passant" with four hammers on two bells.

Jean Pierre Huguenin was born in 1718 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, where he worked as "Maître et marchand-horloger en pendules" from 1739 to 1786. Jean Pierre Huguenin is best known for his high-quality pendulums. He died on 4 November 1786 in La Chaux-de-Fonds at the age of 68.