110th Auction
2024/5/18
Lot 249
Johannes BeitelrockhPrometheus
A very impressive Augsburg Repoussé pair-cased coach clock of museum quality, with quarter hour/ hour strike, quarter repeater and alarm "Prometheus"
Sold
estimated
20.000—30.000 €
Price realized
33.800 €
specific features
Case
Outer and inner case silver, openwork and elaborately decorated. Inner case with rear bell and slide at the rim with engraving: "Wanmanes truck so repudieres" (If you press it, it repeats).
Dial
Silver, champlevé, inlaid radial Roman hours, central alarm disc with Arabic numerals, blued steel hands.
Movement
Full plate movement, applied, engraved, florally pierced decorations, chain/fusee, 3 geometrically engraved barrels for striking and alarm train, 2 hammers, verge escapement, three-arm brass balance.
Diam.110 mm
Circa1740
Ctry.Germany
Wt.1200 g
The back of the case is adorned with a striking repoussé motif showing Prometheus surrounded by trophies of war. Sound holes filled with volutes and rocailles decorate the edge. The edge of the inner case is openwork and extensively ornamented with acanthus scrolls, volutes, mythical creatures and a mascaron.
Johannes Beitelrock was born circa 1700; he set up his own business around 1726 in Augsburg. High quality carriage clocks and watches by Beitelrock are known. An astronomical clock made by him, today resides at the Kunstgewerbe Museum Prag. Beitelrock married on October 7, 1728 and died on May 25, 1758.