Lot Essay
US$8,800-12,500
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UNSIGNED, CIRCA 1810
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SWISS. A FINE AND RARE GOLD, ENAMEL AND PEARL-SET STRAW HAT-FORM KEYWOUND VERGE WATCH
UNSIGNED, CIRCA 1810
Chain fusée verge movement, white enamel dial, Breguet numerals, hinged and concealed within a case designed as a straw hat, the painted enamel front depicting a yellow straw hat with rose and split pearl-set brim, cupid with arrow in one hand holding onto the lavender ribbon encirling the hat with the other, the reverse similarly painted but with a pair of doves, to the bow-shaped pendant, unsigned
38 mm. overall width of hat
UNSIGNED, CIRCA 1810
Chain fusée verge movement, white enamel dial, Breguet numerals, hinged and concealed within a case designed as a straw hat, the painted enamel front depicting a yellow straw hat with rose and split pearl-set brim, cupid with arrow in one hand holding onto the lavender ribbon encirling the hat with the other, the reverse similarly painted but with a pair of doves, to the bow-shaped pendant, unsigned
38 mm. overall width of hat
Provenance
The Sandberg Watch Collection, Geneva, 31 March and 1 April 2001, Lot 57.
Literature
The Sandberg Watch Collection by Terence Camerer Cuss, Osvaldo Patrizzi, Claude Mercier, Etienne Leménager and Arnauld Tellier, published by Antiquorum 1998, page 420-421.
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