Lot 273

Gerardus Brand fecit Amstelredam, 66 x 45 mm, 123 g, dated 1622
A rare oval pre-balance spring pendant watch with one hand
Case: brass and copper, remains of fire gilding. Dial: brass, firegilt, elaborately engraved. Movm.: oval full plate movement, gut/fusee, verge escapement, ratchet wheel set up with blued steel spring, plain three-arm iron balance without balance spring.
The front of this oval pendant watch has 12 windows for reading the Roman hours I-XII on the dial. The watch also features raised hour dots for reading the time at night. The centre of the dial is decorated with an engraved rose and a Star of David consisting of two interwoven triangles.
Gerardus Brand(t) (1594-1659) was born in 1594 in Middelburg. He had his workshop in Amsterdam on the Rokin opposite the "Beurs". Brandt made watches and clocks but was also recorded as a maker of sundials.
His son Gerard Brandt (1626-1685) was a well-known Dutch author, preacher, playwright, church historian, biographer and navy historian.
Provenance: Landrock Collection