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Gregoire Gamot (d. 1673) was one of the master craftsmen who petitioned Louis XIV in 1645 for new statutes establishing the regulations of the Watchmaker's Guild of Paris
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AN ENGRAVED SILVER ALARM WATCH
GAMOT À PARIS
The circular verge movement with gut fusee, ratchet and pawl set up (lacking pawl), tapered cylindrical pillars, four-wheel going train, pierced floral cock secured by screw, alarm train with blued steel stop work under pierced floral grille, similarly pierced spring barrel, striking on bell with double headed hammer driven by gilt contrate wheel and steel crown wheel, silver dial engraved with leafy scrolls and flowers enclosing gilt roman chapter ring and silver alarm disc engraved with hare and hounds, later blued steel alarm indicator, the case with formerly glazed lid, pierced band of inhabited foliage, the back engraved with swordsmen and a profusion of flowering vines c. 1645 -- 47mm diam.
GAMOT À PARIS
The circular verge movement with gut fusee, ratchet and pawl set up (lacking pawl), tapered cylindrical pillars, four-wheel going train, pierced floral cock secured by screw, alarm train with blued steel stop work under pierced floral grille, similarly pierced spring barrel, striking on bell with double headed hammer driven by gilt contrate wheel and steel crown wheel, silver dial engraved with leafy scrolls and flowers enclosing gilt roman chapter ring and silver alarm disc engraved with hare and hounds, later blued steel alarm indicator, the case with formerly glazed lid, pierced band of inhabited foliage, the back engraved with swordsmen and a profusion of flowering vines c. 1645 -- 47mm diam.