150,000 HKD
Ring Watch Geneva, probably Pierre Simon Gounouilhou. Made circa 1820. Very fine and extremely rare, 18K gold and enamel, octagonal ring watch with visible, diamond-set balance. Octagonal top housing the watch, bezel decorated with gold scrolls and blue champlevé enamel, secured by two screws, engraved lower part of band, polished sliding panel at the bottom to reveal the winding and setting holes, hinged and engraved shank with (incomplete) locking mechanism. Octagonal blue champlevé enamel plate decorated with engraved foliage, in the upper part, an aperture for the rose-cut diamond-set balance spinning against a polished steel plate, in the lower part, eccentric white enamel dial with Arabic numerals and outer minute dot divisions. Bluedsteel spade hands. 13 x 25 mm, brass, rectangular, fixed barrel, cylinder escapement, brass escape wheel, plain diamond-set balance with four spiral arms, flat balance spring. Dim. Length 30 mm, width 18 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2010-10-09
