4,012 CHF
“The Hunter” Philippe Gros, a Paris, No. 200. The case with Paris hallmarks for 1760-61. Very fine and rare, 18K vari-colored gold, diamond-set quarter- repeating à toc watch with à tact option. Two-body, “Louis XV”, the back decorated with an applied vari-colored gold scene depicting a hunter, his horse and a dog resting after a stag hunt, the whole against “sunburst” engineturning, bezels with applied multi-colored floral pattern, diamond-set thumb piece, push-button at 8 o’clock for à tact option. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track with five-minute Arabic numerals. Diamond-set “Louis XV” hands. 38 mm, hinged, frosted gilt full-plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, steel balance with flat balance spring, micrometric potence adjustment, pierced and chased foliate continental type balance cock, repeating on gold blocks in the case activated by depressing the pendant. Movement signed. Diam. 45 mm. To be sold without reserve Notes Philippe Gros is recorded as working in Paris in 1780.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-05-14
