95th Auction
2017/5/6
Lot 289
Jean Varin à Paris, 61 mm, 189 g, circa 1710
A decorative verge pocket watch "Oignon" with finely engraved and chased ornamental Arabesque décor and large engraved and pierced balance bridge decorated with foliage and mythological birds
Case: brass, firegilt. Dial: brass, firegilt, enamel cartouches with blue radial Roman numerals. Movm.: full plate movement, chain/fusee, three-arm iron balance.
In 1715 Jean Jacques Varin was listed as a watchmaker in Paris, in the Rue Pot de Fer-Faubourg Saint-Marcel (1713), in the Rue Saint-Anne (1719) and in the Rue de la Calandre (1728). He was married to Marie Madeleine Leclerc. He died before 1795 at l' Ile de la Cité in Paris, the Saint Croix Parish.
Source: http://watch-wiki.org/index.php title=Pariser_Uhrmacher/Personen_V, as of 04/01/2015.
A decorative verge pocket watch "Oignon" with finely engraved and chased ornamental Arabesque décor and large engraved and pierced balance bridge decorated with foliage and mythological birds
Case: brass, firegilt. Dial: brass, firegilt, enamel cartouches with blue radial Roman numerals. Movm.: full plate movement, chain/fusee, three-arm iron balance.
In 1715 Jean Jacques Varin was listed as a watchmaker in Paris, in the Rue Pot de Fer-Faubourg Saint-Marcel (1713), in the Rue Saint-Anne (1719) and in the Rue de la Calandre (1728). He was married to Marie Madeleine Leclerc. He died before 1795 at l' Ile de la Cité in Paris, the Saint Croix Parish.
Source: http://watch-wiki.org/index.php title=Pariser_Uhrmacher/Personen_V, as of 04/01/2015.
Sold
estimated
2.000—4.000 €
Price realized
3.800 €