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AN HISTORICALLY INTERESTING GOLD AND SILVER INLAID WATCH CASE French, circa 1780.
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AN HISTORICALLY INTERESTING GOLD AND SILVER INLAID WATCH CASE French, circa 1780.

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AN HISTORICALLY INTERESTING GOLD AND SILVER INLAID WATCH CASE
French, circa 1780.
the steel consular case inlaid with three colour gold and silver decoration, the back depicting nymphs in a sylvan glade with a geometric pattern to the rim, the bezel with tulip decoration, the bezel rim, hinges and the edges of the case in gold, with gold bow, containing an (incomplete) verge movement signed Le Roy a Paris, white enamel dial with Roman numerals and Arabic five minute divisions, (replaced) decorative gold hands, diameter 50mm.
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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

拍品專文

Steel watch cases are extremely rare and would have cost more than the gold or silver versions to produce due to the difficulty in forming steel. It is thought that the inlaid decoration on steel may have been influenced by the increasing interest in decorative arts from Japan, where a similar process had been developed over some three hundred years.