31,250 HKD
Retouret – Enamel Flowers Retouret, Genève, No. 1874. Made circa 1890. Fine 18K gold and painted on enamel, half hunting cased, lady’s pendant watch. Four-body, "bassine", entirely foliate engraved, back painted on enamel with a rose spray on a pink opalescent guilloche ground, blue enamel leaf border, the front with radial blue Roman numerals on an opalescent pink guilloche ground, outer blue enamel leaf and flower border. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and Arabic five-minute numerals, subsidiary seconds. Black steel spade hands. 13’’’, matte gilt, bar caliber, 15 jewels, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with blued steel flat balance spring, index regulator. Dial and cuvette signed. Diam. 36 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2010-10-09
