14,950 CHF
“Feeding the Ducks” Unsigned, Geneva, No. 1333, circa 1820. Very fine 18K gold and enamel, pearl-set watch made for the Chinese market. To be sold without reserve. Four-body, “Empire”, spring-loaded back with finely painted enamel scene of two children, a girl feeding ducks and a boy holding an eager dog in a woodland landscape, pearl-set bezels, the band pearl-set with translucent red enamel over engineturning, hinged gilt cuvette. Matted gold, engine-turned centre, champlevé radial Roman chapter ring, outer minute dot divisions. Gold “serpentine” hands. 35.3 mm ø, gilt brass full plate, circular pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring, two-footed cock pierced and engraved, rack and pinion regulator with silver plate. Diam. 45 mm. Notes Published in the Sandberg book, pages 328-329. The present lot was previously sold by Antiquorum Geneva on April 1, 2001 lot 371.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-10-16
