112nd Auction
2025/5/10
Lot 302
Willem RediMet privilege Anno 1736
An extremely rare, single-handed Amsterdam "Pendule Religieuse" in the Hague tradition with half hour/hour strike and separate minute dial
Sold
estimated
3.500—5.000 €
Price realized
8.800 €
specific features
Case
Ebonised oak, ball feet, glazed rectangular side panels, glazed front with flanking pilasters, hinged back door with star-cut marquetry backplate, broken arched pediment with vase finial.
Dial
Hinged iron plate covered with red velvet, bronze chapter ring with inlaid radial Roman hours, open-worked and florally decorated hand; silvered and glazed minute dial in the centre, decorated hand; lower half with applied gilt bronze figure of Chronos and inscription: "Met privilege Anno 1736".
Movement
Rectangular brass movement, 2 barrels, verge escapement, keywind, baluster-shaped movement pillars, locking disc, 1 hammer / 1 bell, silk suspended short pendulum, cycloidal cheeks.
Diam.485 x 315 x 140 mm
Circa1736
Ctry.Netherlands
According to Amsterdam city archives, the clockmaker Willem Redi was born in 1665. His house was in the Elandsgracht. In 1712 he married Maria van Leeuwen, with whom he had two children, born in 1717 and 1720. Willem Redi died in 1754. An alarm clock by Redi can be found in the Ostfriesisches Landesmuseum in Emden.