Paul Schroder, Kiel

Property from the Masterworks of Time Collection

Paul Schroder, Kiel

A silver pair cased hour striking and trip hour repeating clock watch

Circa 1700

• Movement: gilded, verge escapement, fusee and chain, plain flat steel balance, decoratively pierced and engraved balance cock, blued steel end-cap, silver regulation plate, turned baluster and crested Egyptian pillars, decoratively pierced and engraved standing barrel for strike and repeat train, single hammer striking a bell mounted to the inside case back, signed Paul Schroder, Kiel

• Dial: silver champlevé, chapter ring with Roman numerals, fleur-de-lys form half-hour divisions, outer Arabic minute ring, the centre with masked banner signed Schroder above a basket of fruit, filigree hands

• Case: silver inner, decoratively pierced and engraved with flowers and foliage inhabited by birds, trip repeat pusher in the band at 10 o'clock to sound the hour, strike/silent slide at 2 o'clock • silver outer case the front bezel pierced for sound emission, both bezels with intertwined ribbon-form decoration, sprung pusher to outer bezel between 10 and 11 o'clock connecting to repeat pusher of inner case, outer case stamped with a rosette, PI and possibly 97 all within separate cartouches

diameter of outer case 58mm, inner 49mm