Lot 49
49
Ron. A fine and early german gilt and silver oval two train stackfreed pre-hairspring hour striking verge clockwatch
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Ron. A fine and early german gilt and silver oval two train stackfreed pre-hairspring hour striking verge clockwatch

SIGNED AR FOR ANDREAS RON, AUGSBURG, CIRCA 1590

Details
Ron. A fine and early german gilt and silver oval two train stackfreed pre-hairspring hour striking verge clockwatch
Signed AR for Andreas Ron, Augsburg, circa 1590
With gilt-finished two train verge movement, pierced spiral balance cock, steel two-armed balance, steel stackfreed, hog's bristle regulator, blued steel countwheel, the hours stroke on a bell, the gilt dial plate with engraved foliage decoration, engraved and blackened Roman numerals and metal touch pieces, half-hour divisions, the centre field engraved with a village and river scene, single steel hand, the gilt oval case with pierced scroll and foliage decorated back containing the bell, the hinged gilt cover with pierced apertures revealing the dial and allowing to read the time, centred by a pierced and engraved floral and foliage decoration, the silver band with pierced floral and foliage design, turned finial and pierced pendant, movement stamped with initials AR in a shield
52 mm. wide & 80 mm. overall length
Literature
Described and illustrated in Watches by Cecil Clutton & George Daniels, 1965 edition, pl. 89-91.
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Lot Essay

The present watch is a typical example of an early German hour striking clockwatch featuring the stackfreed. The stackfreed, an eccentric cam or snail serving as a mainspring-equaliser, was most certainly invented in Nuremberg in the 16th century and seems having been limited to southern Germany. Its advantage over the early, crude fusée was that it required less height and hence allowed the manufacture of flatter watches.

Its dial plate is stamped AR in a shield-shaped cartouche, most probably for Andreas Ron or Ran, Rain, 1550-1605, active in Augsburg in the mid 16th century (see Meister der Uhrmacherkunst by Jürgen Abeler, p. 521).

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