Swiss. An 18 carat gold, enamel and pearl-set basket-form watch

UNSIGNED, CIRCA 1810

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Swiss. An 18 carat gold, enamel and pearl-set basket-form watch
Unsigned, circa 1810
With gilt finished verge movement, engraved and pierced cock, chain fusée, the white enamel dial with Arabic numerals, blued steel moon-style hands, all hinged within a basket-form case, the front with a finely painted polychrome enamel scene depicting a reposing putto holding a pansy, the reverse with a painted polychrome enamel floral decoration, the pearl-set bases with translucent blue enamel guilloché cartouches, unsigned
36 mm. wide

Lot Essay

A similar watch is illustrated in Montres de fantaisie by Oswaldo Patrizzi-Fabienne X. Sturm, pl. 47. and Montres Genevoises du XIXe siècle by Richard Hugues Rod, Fabienne Xavière Sturm, Anne Winter-Jensen, p. 16, pl.15.

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