GRANGIER. A RARE SILVER, ENAMEL AND DIAMOND-SET WATCH

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GRANGIER. A RARE SILVER, ENAMEL AND DIAMOND-SET WATCH
signed Marc Grangier, circa 1650

with full-plate gilt movement, the pierced and engraved oval balance cock affixed by a screw, plain pillars, the dial with a white enamel chapter-ring, Roman numerals, the centre with turquoise enamel with black, red and off-white enamel decoration, later hands, silver bezel with engraving, the back in turquoise enamel ground with white enamel foliage decoration centered by a turquoise, bordeaux and white enamel raised flower, centered and surrounded by table-cut diamonds, the interior of turquoise blue enamel centered by a black enamelled foliage decoration, plain later silver pendant- movement signed- 40mm. diam.

Literature

This watch is illustrated in La Montre Suisse by E. Jaquet and A. Chapuis, on plate 19 and was formerly part of the Hof Collection in Geneva

Lot Essay

The technique of enamelling a metal without making the metal visible was the predecessor of painting on enamel and is called the Limoges technique.

The watch offered here at auction is by Marc Grangier listed as France ca. 1650 in G.H. Baillie but is believed to have been from Geneva and to have settled in Chatellerault.
There are close connections between the Genevois and the Chattelerault techniques of enamelling. This is underlined by the fact that Martin Duboule sent his son to apprentice at Grangier, a citizen of Geneva and later Grangier's son was sent to Geneva to make an apprenticeship.

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