5,750 CHF
Viennese, circa 1840. Fine and unusual 18K gold and enamel pendant form watch designed as a lotus flower. Four body, fully decorated with scarlet flinque enamel, and green leaves, the spring-loaded petals with champleve enamelled flowers, disclosing the dial. White enamel with Roman numerals. Blued steel Breguet hands. Hinged gilt brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement, plain brass three-arm balance with flat spring and regulator. Gilt brass continental cock with polished steel end-piece. Dim. 47 x 36 mm. Notes This watch is illustrated in L'Horlogerie Ancienne clans les Collections Privies Suisses, MIH, La Chaux de Foncls, 1995, p. 94, fig. 131.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1998-10-31
