8,625 CHF
"Lépine, Horloger du Roy, à Paris", No. 16728, circa 1790. Fine and rare 20K gold and painted on enamel, pearl-set watch with original matching châtelaine. Two-body, spring-loaded, "Lépine", back painted with harborscene, paillon laurel-leaf frame on purple enamel background,pearl-set bezels. Châtelaine: single link with two bars, goldspoon, the top depicting a landscape with ruins within pearl-setframe, bars with paillon foliate wreath. White enamel, radialArabic numerals, outer minute dot divisions with five-minuteArabic markers, winding aperture at 2 o’clock. Gold "beetle andpoker" hands. 38 mm, hinged, frosted gilt full-plate withcylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, brassbalance with flat balance-spring, continental cock.Signed on dial and movement.Diam. 46 mm, length with châtelaine 142 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-04-24
