Sold for:
12,500 CHF
12,500 CHF
SCARAB ROUGE Swiss, the later movement by Breitling. Made circa 1870. Fine gold and enamel, diamond-set pendant form watch designed as a scarab-beetle. Four-body, underside realistically chased and engraved with legs and underbody, wing covers entirely decorated in translucent red enamel over engine-turning and set with 10 diamonds, the thorax with a diamond-set and black enamel collar, spring loaded wing covers hinged and opening from a button in the base to reveal the dial. White enamel with radial blue Arabic numerals, outer gold dot minute divisions. Gold baton hands.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2012-11-11
