Peter Krenckel

A very fine Eichstätt quarter repeating "repoussé" verge pocket watch in a triple case "Diana, the Goddess of Hunting"

Sold

estimated

3.500—5.500 €

Price realized

4.800 €

specific features

Case

Outer case - brass, gilt, covered with tortoiseshell, applied stud decoration. Intermediate case - 18 K gold, finest "repoussé" decoration, pierced. Inner case - 18 K gold, pierced, engraved, bell.

Dial

Enamel.

Movement

Full plate movement, chain/fusee, 2 hammers, three-arm steel balance.

Diam.54 mm

Circa1720

Ctry.Germany

Wt.142 g

This exquisite verge pocket watch sits in a fine repoussé intermediate case which is – due to the protective outer case – in excellent condition. It is decorated with a baroque-style volute frame showing a portrait of Diana, patron of the hunters, in the forest. The rim and the bezel is openworked and decorated with portrait busts, putti and birds. The golden inner case is similarly elaborately ornamented, with an open-worked rim and engravings of volutes, birds heads and a hunting scene, depicting a snake, a deer and two hounds.

According to Jürgen Abeler, watchmaker Peter Krenckel was born in 1687 in Hattnau. He worked as assistant to Wilhelm Köberle in Eichstätt and married Köberle’s daughter in 1714. Krenckel died in 1730.