3,125 CHF
Jean Robert Soret - Montre à Portrait Jean Robert Soret, Geneva, No. 28036. Made circa 1780. Fine and rare, Louis XVI, 18K gold and painted on enamel, paste-set pair-cased pendant watch. Outer: two-body, the back set with a painted on enamel portrait of a young lady holding a book, royal blue enamel and gold paillon border with paste-set border and foliage, band engraved with repeated pattern, paste-set bezel. Inner: two-body, “bassine” polished with deep back. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track with five-minute Arabic numerals. Paste-set elaborate hands. 31 mm, hinged, frosted gilt full-plate with pentagonal baluster pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, three-arm brass balance with flat balance spring, single-footed cock with ruby-paste endstone. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Notes Jean Robert Soret (1731-1799) Master watchmaker from a horological family of at least three generations. One member of the family, Frédéric, worked in London; he may have represented the family in the English market.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-05-15
