6,325 CHF
Family Portrait. Frères Veigneur A Geneve, circa 1790.Very fine, 18 ct. varicoloured gold and enamel, rose diamond-set watch with dumb quarter repeating on a bell. White enamel, Roman chapters, outer minute divisions, Arabic five minute numerals. Blued-steel Breguet hands. 42.8 mm o, hinged, gilt brass full plate, cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, plain three-arm brass balance,lat balance spring, continental two-footed cock pierced and engraved with six tulips, rack and pinion regulator with silver plate, striking on a bell by depressingthe pendant.Signed on the dial and the movement.Diam. 53 mm. Published in the Sandberg book, pages 160-161.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2001-03-31