![A WATCHMAKER’S ARCHIVE, comprising designs for watch and clock mechanisms, [Paris, c.1869-c.1924]. Including design drawings, mostly in multiple, often with written specifications, for mechanisms including: watch chimes, perpetual motion, remontoire, alarm clock, metronome, platines (the plates that bear the movement parts of a watch) and many others, along with some designs for clocks (pendulums, figures for a clockface). In French, c.140 items in total: the designs almost exclusively on re-used pieces of paper of all sizes and in one notebook (30 pages, 131 x 95mm). Card covers, titled ‘Watchmaking Notes/ Geneva 1825’. 19th-century ex-libris of Léon Leroy; inscribed on flyleaf ‘Louis Ferriere 1825’. Slip folder.](https://www.christies.com.cn/img/LotImages/2017/CKS/2017_CKS_14298_0034_001(a_watchmakers_archive_comprising_designs_for_watch_and_clock_mechanism020809).jpg?w=1)
![A WATCHMAKER’S ARCHIVE, comprising designs for watch and clock mechanisms, [Paris, c.1869-c.1924]. Including design drawings, mostly in multiple, often with written specifications, for mechanisms including: watch chimes, perpetual motion, remontoire, alarm clock, metronome, platines (the plates that bear the movement parts of a watch) and many others, along with some designs for clocks (pendulums, figures for a clockface). In French, c.140 items in total: the designs almost exclusively on re-used pieces of paper of all sizes and in one notebook (30 pages, 131 x 95mm). Card covers, titled ‘Watchmaking Notes/ Geneva 1825’. 19th-century ex-libris of Léon Leroy; inscribed on flyleaf ‘Louis Ferriere 1825’. Slip folder.](https://www.christies.com.cn/img/LotImages/2017/CKS/2017_CKS_14298_0034_000(a_watchmakers_archive_comprising_designs_for_watch_and_clock_mechanism041128).jpg?w=1)
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A WATCHMAKER’S ARCHIVE, comprising designs for watch and clock mechanisms, [Paris, c.1869-c.1924]. Including design drawings, mostly in multiple, often with written specifications, for mechanisms including: watch chimes, perpetual motion, remontoire, alarm clock, metronome, platines (the plates that bear the movement parts of a watch) and many others, along with some designs for clocks (pendulums, figures for a clockface). In French, c.140 items in total: the designs almost exclusively on re-used pieces of paper of all sizes and in one notebook (30 pages, 131 x 95mm). Card covers, titled ‘Watchmaking Notes/ Geneva 1825’. 19th-century ex-libris of Léon Leroy; inscribed on flyleaf ‘Louis Ferriere 1825’. Slip folder.
An extensive collection of intricate designs – compiled by an horologist identifiable as one Benjamin Dentan of Paris – which offers an insight into the inner workings of French watchmaking at the turn of the 20th century.
An extensive collection of intricate designs – compiled by an horologist identifiable as one Benjamin Dentan of Paris – which offers an insight into the inner workings of French watchmaking at the turn of the 20th century.
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Robert Tyrwhitt