15,600 CHF
Gold, Enamel & Pearls Quarter Repeating Bin Dellieret a Geneve. Made for the English market, circa 1790. Very fine and rare, quarter-repeating, 18K gold and enamel, pearl-set pocket watch with a matching gold, enamel and pearl-set chatelaine. Accompanied by a later fitted wooden box. Two-body, “consular”, the back in translucent Imperial blue enamel over engine-turning with applied pearl-set rosette in the center, pearl-set bezels. Chatelaine: graduated oval, circular and oblong panels with Imperial blue and white enamel decoration matching the watch, three tassels, a keys and a conical seal en suite, gilt metal spoon. White enamel, convex, radial Arabic numerals, outer minute dot divisions. Gold arrowhead hands. 33 mm, hinged, frosted gilt full-plate with conical pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, three-arm brass balance with flat balance spring, continental cock, silver regulation disc, repeating on bell activated by depressing the pendant. Movement signed, the bell scratched-signed "Drury". Diam. 49 mm. Notes It is likely that the present watch was made in London using an imported movement from Geneva. The case bezel is punched with the lion passant mark and the bell is signed Drury. Drury A bell maker working in Soho and whose bells were used by most of the eminent English watchmakers of the second half of the 18th century due to their unparalleled tonal qualities.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-05-10
