2,596 CHF
“Bloodstone” C(harles) Cabrier, London, No. 2593. Made circa 1760. Very fine, small, 22K gold-mounted bloodstone pocket watch. Two-body, the back carved from a single piece of bloodstone mounted in 22K gold, the bezel in gold mounted bloodstone with six applied plain gold cartouches. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions with fifteen-minute Arabic numerals, winding aperture at 4. Gold "Louis XV" hands. 28 mm, hinged, frosted gilt full-plate with square baluster pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, three-arm brass balance with flat balance spring, single-footed foliate pierced and engraved cock, silver regulation dial. Movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. To be sold without reserve
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-04-02