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JOHANN SIMONN BOTZMEYER À DANTZIG Milieu XVIIIe siècle
The item was sold for 9 750 €
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JOHANN SIMONN BOTZMEYER À DANTZIG Milieu XVIIIe siècle
Carriage watch with repeater and alarm
Openworked brass movement, engraved silver regulator disc, verge escapement, steel cockerel, baluster pillars, repeater by stamp printing.
Openworked silver case
Diam: 109 mm
Case in shape signed "ADELE"
Magnificent carriage watch, in the same family for several generations. This watch would have been offered to Adèle Foucher in 1822 on the occasion of her marriage with Victor Hugo. The leather case is marked with her first name and the key bears her initials.
"A few words from you, my darling Adèle, have changed the state of my soul once again", thus begins the collection of Letters to the Bride, a correspondence between the French writer
Victor Hugo and the love of his life Adèle
Foucher from 1819 to 1822. Victor and Adèle, who had been friends since their early childhood, confessed their love in 1819 by letters due to the hostility of their respective families.
Their engagement lasted three and a half years, during which they exchanged more than a hundred letters, before getting religiously married on October 12, 1922 in the church of Saint-Sulpice in Paris.
Carriage watch with repeater and alarm
Openworked brass movement, engraved silver regulator disc, verge escapement, steel cockerel, baluster pillars, repeater by stamp printing.
Openworked silver case
Diam: 109 mm
Case in shape signed "ADELE"
Magnificent carriage watch, in the same family for several generations. This watch would have been offered to Adèle Foucher in 1822 on the occasion of her marriage with Victor Hugo. The leather case is marked with her first name and the key bears her initials.
"A few words from you, my darling Adèle, have changed the state of my soul once again", thus begins the collection of Letters to the Bride, a correspondence between the French writer
Victor Hugo and the love of his life Adèle
Foucher from 1819 to 1822. Victor and Adèle, who had been friends since their early childhood, confessed their love in 1819 by letters due to the hostility of their respective families.
Their engagement lasted three and a half years, during which they exchanged more than a hundred letters, before getting religiously married on October 12, 1922 in the church of Saint-Sulpice in Paris.