5,900 CHF
“Andromache” Lepine INVENIT ET FECIT, Paris. Made circa 1780. Very fine 18K gold, enamel and diamond-set pocket watch with ivory miniature in a protective case. To be sold without reserve Protective: polished, glazed on the back. Inner: two-body, the back centered by a navette-shaped painted on ivory monochrome miniature depicting Andromache mourning Hector sitting in front of a vase on a pedestal, rose-cut diamond-set frame, translucent red enamel border over circular engine-turning, bezels engraved in repeated pattern, front bezel and bow set with rose-cut diamonds, gilt brass hinged cuvette with aperture for the balance cock. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track with five-minute Arabic numerals. Elaborate rose-cut diamond-set hands. 30 mm, frosted gilt full-plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, micrometric potence adjustment, brass balance with flat balance spring, continental cock, silver regulation disc. Dial signed. Diam. 47 mm. Property of a Swiss Collector
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-11-12
