1,875 CHF
Berthoud - Portrait de Dame Berthoud A Paris, Swiss. Made circa 1770. Fine, 18K varicolored gold, painted on enamel and paste-set pocket watch with a gold key on short gold chain. Two-body, paste-set bezel, the back decorated with a painted on enamel portrait of a young lady beneath a paste-set coronet, applied varicolored gold border of flowers and foliage. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and large Arabic five-minute numerals, winding aperture at 2 o’clock. Fancy paste-set hands. 33 mm., hinged gilt brass full plate, fusee with chain, verge escapement with micrometric potence adjustment, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring, pierced and foliate chased continental type balance cock with polished steel end-piece, silver regulation dial. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 41 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-05-15
