Lot 514

Gabriel Jaumard à Tolose (Toulouse), 46 x 55 mm, 195 g, circa 1650
An early one-handed oval Renaissance drum watch with alarm
Case: bronze, pierced, lavishly engraved mythological scenes, floral ornaments, bell. Dial: brass, firegilt, engraving, silvered chapter ring with radial Roman numerals, central turnable florally engraved alarm disc, pierced steel hand. Movm.: firegilt brass full plate movement, gut/fusee, florally pierced barrel, verge escapement, 1 hammer, moulded conical movement pillars, iron ring balance without hairspring, very finely florally engraved, pierced balance cock.

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