21,875 HKD
The Departure Swiss. Made circa 1770. Fine, three-color 18K gold and painted on enamel pocket watch. Two-body, Louis XVI, engraved bezel, the back decorated with a finely painted on enamel scene of a lady and her son departing from a building, a man pointing and two further figures in the background, three-color gold floral border. Silver, engine-turned with champlevé radial Roman numerals, outer minute track. Blued steel Breguet hands. Hinged gilt brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement with micrometric potence adjustment, plain brass three arm-steel balance, flat balance spring, polished steel end-piece. Diam. 33 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2010-10-09