Watch with enamel portrait believed to be of Anne Marie Louise d’Orléans, Duchesse de Montpensier (1627-1693)
- Made:
- 1650
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Watch with a gilt-metal case covered in engraved flowers and an enamel portrait on the dial by Jean Hubert, Rouen, France, c.1650. Enamel dial formed of a white chapter ring, surrounding a portrait believed to be of Anne Marie Louise d’Orléans, Duchesse de Montpensier (1627-1693). Later steel hand. Movement with verge escapement, train with three wheels, worm-and-wheel set up, and balance cock with oval shaped foot screwed to backplate. Fusee with gut line. Signed on backplate 'Jean Hubert A Rouen'.
Clockmakers' Museum No. 30
Details
- Category:
- Clockmakers
- Collection:
- The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers
- Object Number:
- L2015-3106
- Materials:
- gilt brass, brass (copper, zinc alloy), steel (metal), enamel and glass
- Measurements:
-
overall: 51 mm x 42 mm
- type:
- watch and verge movement
- credit:
- Lent by the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers
