5,750 CHF
N. Cartwright, London, No. 1388, circa 1750. Fine gilt brass and enamel pair-cased watch with matching châtelaine. Outer: two-body, back painted on white enamel resemblingporcelain depicting a courting couple, asymmetrical rocailleborder, bezel painted with flowers and stylized foliage. Inner:two-body, "bassine" with deep back, polished. Châtelaine: ofthree links, painted en suite with flowers, two chains for key andseal. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minutedivisions with five-minute Arabic markers. Blued steel "beetleand poker" hands. 35 mm, frosted gilt full-plate with squarebaluster pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, brass bal-ancewith flat balance spring, single-footed silver trefoil cock.Signed on the movement.Diam. 52 mm. length with châtelaine 195 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-04-24