8,050 CHF
A Flower Isaac Soret et Fils, Geneva, No. 26254, circa 1795. Very fine and rare 18K multicolored gold and painted on enamel pair-cased center seconds quarter-repeating watch with date and ages of the moon. Outer: protective, gilt brass, glazed on the back, bezels covered with red tortoiseshell and riveted with gilt studs. Inner: two-body, “Louis XVI”, back painted on enamel depicting a gentleman giving a flower to his lady in the countryside, gold paillon frame on white enamel background, translucent imperial blue enamel border decorated with gold paillons forming garlands of flowers, bezels pierced for sound and decorated with applied multicolored gold and champlevé enamel laurel-leaf pattern.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-10-11
