111st Auction
2024/11/16
Lot 222
Elias Weckherlin
An extremely rare Augsburg single-handed verge pocket watch with alarm
Sold
estimated
7.500—15.000 €
Price realized
13.800 €
specific features
Case
Silver, lacquered, florally engraved bezel, rear bell.
Dial
Silver champlevé, inlaid radial Roman numerals, central alarm disc with Arabic numerals.
Movement
Fine full plate movement, chain/fusee, engraved barrel for alam, ratchet wheel set up with blued steel spring, 1 hammer, plain two-arm iron balance without balance spring.
Diam.45 mm
Circa1680
Ctry.Germany
Wt.112 g
Elias Weckherlin was active in Augsburg from 1646 to 1688. His daughter Maria Barbara Weckherlin married watchmaker Johann Martin, who would later take over Weckherlin’s workshop. Weckherlin‘s work is today owned by the British Museum, the Louvre in Paris and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam; some of his timepieces were part of the collections Fränkel, Ilbert and Damiano. The historic Green Vault (Grünes Gewölbe) in Dresden holds a Weckherlin watch with a case made by goldsmith Hans Jakob Mair.