$3,250
VACHERON PORTRAIT YELLOW GOLD AND ENAMEL Vacheron, Geneve, No. 4255. Made circa 1890. Very fine and unusual, 18K gold and enamel, hunting cased keyless pendant watch. Accompanied by a key. Four-body, basine, polished, hinged and sprung front cover painted on enamel with a portrait of a lady set with 6 single-cut diamonds and an engraved scroll border , the back cover decorated with a finely painted on enamel musical scene with flowers, hinged engraved cuvette. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track with 5-minute Arabic markers, subsidiary sunk seconds dial. Gold Louis XIV hands. 40 mm. 18’’’, nickel-plated, 15 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel flat balance spring, index regulator. Cuvette signed. DIAM. 37 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2013-04-10
