6,250 CHF
Reguillon - Half Quarter-Repeating Gold Portrait Watch Pierre Reguillon à Geneve. Made circa 1780. Fine and rare, half quarter-repeating, pair-cased, varicolored gold and rose-cut diamond-set pocket watch with a painted on enamel portrait of a young lady. Outer: Two-body, Louis XVI, bezel engraved with a guilloche pattern and set with rose-cut diamonds, the back set with an oval painted on enamel portrait of a lady in a green translucent and white and gold enamel border, rose-cut diamond set frame with ribbon cresting, chased varicolored gold laurel border. Inner: Two-body, bassine, the band pierced and engraved with foliage and a mask. Gilt dust cover. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and large Arabic five-minute numerals. Rose-cut diamond-set hands. 29 mm., gilt brass, full plate with fuse and chain, verge escapement, three-arm brass balance with flat balance spring, balance cock with single foot, silver regulation dial. Dial, dust cap and movement signed. Diam. 43 mm. Notes Pierre Reguillon Master horologist in 1780, known for making repeating watches with gold, enamel and jewels.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-05-15
