Lot 300

Caspar Sackherer, Fridtberg, 97 mm, 1150 g, circa 1710
A Friedberg Baroque coach clock of museum quality, with quarter hour/hour strike, alarm, moon phase and moon age
Case: brass, firegilt, pierced edge, rear bell. Dial: gilt, champlevé, central turnable alarm disc. Movm.: full plate movement, barrel/chain/fusee for going train, 2 florally engraved barrels for quarter hour/hour strike with independently working racks, 1 barrel for alarm train, 4 hammers, verge escapement, silver regulator disc, three-arm steel balance, control dial for quarter hour repeater.
The back is engraved with view of Friedberg Castle; the sides are completely open-worked and ornamented with foliage scrolls, heraldic birds and an atlas in the form of a putto.
Sacherer Kaspar (or Sackherer, Sackerer, Schakerer, Sacra) was born in Friedberg on May 24, 1672, and died on June 14, 1723. His famous contemporary Johann Rehle (1684-1726) of Friedberg is known to have made an almost identical watch which was part of the exhibition "Friedberger Uhren" in the local museum in Friedberg in 1993.
Provenance: Prince Philip of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst

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