Timepieces Collection

Didier Lalemand (active 1675 - 1686)
Gilt-brass and rock crystal cased verge watch in the form of a crucifix with calendar

Signed on the back-plate: didier Lalemand AParis, c. 1660

case; gilt-brass, rock crystal dial; enamel; enamelled in pink on a white ground, blued-steel movement; silver; engraved

case 49.1 mm length case 30.7 mm width case 21.25 mm thickness movement 34.7 mm length movement 24.4 mm width movement 6.85 mm pillar height

Case: Gilt-brass and rock-crystal in the form of a crucifix. Dial: Enamelled dial with hours I-XII, triangular half-hour marks and a quarters circle. Decorated with the Instruments of the Passion in pink on a white ground. Blued-steel hand. Movement: Cruciform plates with baluster pillars. Mainspring barrel with tangent-screw set-up; later fusee with chain; three wheel train; verge escapement with a very large balance cock screwed to the back plate. In one of the arms of the cross, a manually set silver drum with a hebdomadal calendar engraved with emblematic figures. Attached to the drum and mounted on the back plate is a silver disc engraved with the initial letters of the days of the week. Signed on the back-plate: didier Lalemand AParis Didier Lalemand worked in the St. Germain area of Paris, 1675-1686. Literature: Baillie, Watches, 1929, pl. XXIII, pp. 111, 148.

Webster

Thompson (2007)

Bequeathed by J. Francis Mallett, 1947.

WA1947.191.27

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