Record Ref: 39
Category: Watch
Manufacturer: unknown
Country: France
Year: 1580-1620
Number of gear trains: unknown
Plates - material: Brass
Plates - shape: Oval
Manufacturers marks: Jean Falise Dejon
Plates - size (mm):
Escapement type:
Primary motive force: Fusee
Calendar: No
Winding: Key wind
Setting: Hand
Special features: Dimension of watch: 88.9 mm long, 45.72mm wide,
13.716
thick at the ends and 27.94mm in the middle. The watch hand is a steel blue
that is 23.368 long. The brass numerical ring has a outer dimension of
28.829 and an inner dimension of 21.336.
The case is silver with a hunting scene pierced through it. The face plate
is also silver with a hunting scene carved into it. The works of the watch
are brass.
Notes: I hope that this information I have sent you will enable you to
place the
photos on your site. I am sorry if some of the descriptions are vague but I
am not a watch coinsure. I have had this watch in my possession since 1982
but have kept it locked in a safety deposit box. When I came across your web
site I thought this would be a great place to share a little history.
I am also sending you a letter I received in 1984 from Catherine Cardinal at
the Musee National des Techniques in Paris France. "Dear Sir,
The oval watch that you posses seem to me very interesting.
Its silver engraved case of hunt scenes and its movement by an escapement
mechanism caused be a spindle, and a ring shaped watch case are
characteristics of the timepiece productions of the years 1580-1620.
The plate of the case has the signature of a watchmaker, Jean Falise, of
Dijon. This watchmaker does not appear in the repertoires of watchmakers.
The town of Dijon seemed to be the watch manufacturer around the 1600's. At
that time' particularly, worked C.Phelizot (whose display is at the
International Museum of Watch and Clock making and another at the Louvre).
Your watch might be compared to the watches of the P. Garnier collection
kept at the Louvre and at the John and Mabel Ringling Museum of Art at
Sarasota, in Florida."
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