Lot Essay
This watch most likely dates to Nanaline's first marriage.
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AN ANTIQUE GOLD AND BLUE ENAMEL FOB WATCH, BY LONGINES
With nickel-finished jeweled lever movement, the white circular dial with blue Arabic numerals and gold hands, subsidiary seconds, within an ornately decorated blue enamel case, enhanced by rose-cut diamonds, suspended by a fleur de lys pin of similar design, mounted in 18k gold, circa 1890, with Swiss assay mark
Movement signed Longines; cuvette signed Longines, Grand Prix, Paris 1889; inside case no. 783923
With nickel-finished jeweled lever movement, the white circular dial with blue Arabic numerals and gold hands, subsidiary seconds, within an ornately decorated blue enamel case, enhanced by rose-cut diamonds, suspended by a fleur de lys pin of similar design, mounted in 18k gold, circa 1890, with Swiss assay mark
Movement signed Longines; cuvette signed Longines, Grand Prix, Paris 1889; inside case no. 783923
Provenance
Nanaline Duke, and by descent to Doris Duke
Special notice
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