$4,375
Enamel Flowers Frères Melly, Geneve, No. 7308. Made circa 1840. Fine, 18K gold and champleve enamel pocket watch. Four-body, the bezel decorated with white champlevé enamel half flowers with green leaves and red dots on a black enamel ground, the back cover with polychrome champlevé enamel flowers and foliage on a black enamel ground. Hinged gold cuvette. Gold, sunburst guilloche, with radial Roman numerals around an octagonal border. Blued steel Breguet hands. 14 ¾’’, matte gilt, jeweled cylinder escapement, plain three-arm gilt balance, blued steel flat balance spring, index regulator. Cuvette signed. Diam. 39 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-06-08