111st Auction
2024/11/16
Lot 152
Antoni Millögg, der Junge
A very fine, small Vienna coach clock of museum-quality, with pull quarter repeater and alarm
Sold
estimated
20.000—30.000 €
Price realized
22.500 €
specific features
Case
Silver, around the edge open work decoration and finely engraved with foliage scrolls, string for repetition, movement protection cap.
Dial
Silver, champlevé, inlaid radial Roman hours, central alarm disc.
Movement
Full plate movement, chain/fusee, additional barrel for alarm, 4 hammers, verge escapement, three-arm steel balance.
Diam.78 mm
Circa1725
Ctry.Austria
Wt.423 g
The watch is described on page 249 of "Die Kutschenuhr" (the carriage clock) by Lukas Stollberg and was part of Christie’s 1983 auction in Geneva.
Case and bezel are feature openwork edges and engraved leaf tendrils. The back has a central engraving of arabesque leaves and foliage with a winged putto in the middle.
Watchmaker Antoni Millögg the younger in Vienna became a master in 1723 and died in 1752.