360,000 HKD
View of Yverdon Geneva, enamel attributed to Jean-Louis Richter. Made for the Spanish market, circa 1800. Fine and rare 18K gold and painted on enamel, large pearl-set pocket watch. Two-body, “Directoire”, pearl set bezels, enameled pendant and bow, the back with a fine painted on enamel lake and mountain scene with a dark blue guilloché enamel sky. White enamel with Arabic numerals, outer minute indexes and Arabic quarter hour numerals. Gold Breguet hands. 44 mm, frosted gilt, full plate, cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, three-arm brass balance, blued steel flat balance spring, continental type balance cock, silvered regulation dial. Diam. 56 mm. Notes The present watch was previously sold in the Lord Sandberg sale, April 1, 2001, lot 267, and is published in the Sandberg book, page 346-347. We thank Mr. Arnaud Tellier, director of the Patek Philippe Museum, for the following historical and biographical information on Richter. Jean-Louis Richter (1766-1841) Apainter, he was active in Geneva's "Fabrique" from the 1780's to the 1830's. His work, often unsigned, is clearly recognizable. He was the son of Jean Jost Richter (d. 1792), an engraver and "bourgeois" of Frankfort on the Main, who became a habitant of Geneva on February 7, 1766. In 1778, at the age of 12, Richter began a six-year apprenticeship with the Roux brothers, who specialized in the decoration of watches and jewelery. In January 1793, "Rifter" (sic) is listed among the ci
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-06-08
