37,500 CHF
BARRAUD'S SUMMER BOUQUET ENAMEL AND PEARL-SET GOLD Barrauds, Cornhill, London, No. 9037. Made for the Chinese market, the case with London hallmarks for 1813-14. Very rare and fine, large, 18K gold painted on enamel, pearl-set pocket watch. Three-body, "Empire" with fixed cuvette, flat reeded band, split pearl-set bezels pendant and bow, the spring-loaded back opened by a push-piece in the pendant and painted on enamel with a fine bouquet of flowers and foliage against a translucent red enamel background over wavy-line engine-turning, the scalloped border decorated in champlevé enamel. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, large subsidiary seconds. Gold "spade" hands. 48 mm. hinged, full-plate, gilt, going barrel, ringed cylindrical pillars, cylinder escapement with steel escape wheel, brass four-arm balance, flat balance spring with Joseph Bosley patented regulator, gilded cock pierced and engraved with scrolling foliage. Gilded dust-cap with finely engraved foliate border. Notes Dial and movement signed. DIAM. 60 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2016-05-15
