17,250 CHF
Gage de Mon Amitié Lépine à Paris, No. 857, circa 1765. Very fine and rare 20K gold-mounted agate pair-cased watch with matching châtelaine, scent compartment, and unusual seal and key. Outer: two-body, made of gold-mounted striated agate.Inner: two-body, "Louis XV", polished. Châtelaine: of four linksin gold-mounted gray striated agate, gilt brass spoon, fourchains for seal and key with "blackamoor" handles, tam-bourinecharm, and striated agate scent compartmentwith white enamel edge and the words "GAGE DE MONAMITIE" (slightly chipped). White enamel, radialRoman numerals, outer minute dot divisions withfive-minute Arabic markers, winding aperture at 2o’clock. Gold "Louis XV" hands. 23 mm, frostedgilt full-plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee andchain, verge escapement brass balance with flatbalance spring, continental cock.Signed on the movement.Diam. 29 mm, length with châtelaine 140 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-04-24
