JOSEPH RANNA. A RARE AND ATTRACTIVE PINK GOLD, ENAMEL AND PEARL-SET LYRE-SHAPED KEYWOUND VERGE WATCH WITH PINK GOLD, ENAMEL AND DIAMOND-SET CHATELAINE

SIGNED JOSEPH RANNA IN WIEN, NO. 7008, CASE STAMPED JW FOR JOSEPH WEICHBERGER, CIRCA 1830

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JOSEPH RANNA. A RARE AND ATTRACTIVE PINK GOLD, ENAMEL AND PEARL-SET LYRE-SHAPED KEYWOUND VERGE WATCH WITH PINK GOLD, ENAMEL AND DIAMOND-SET CHATELAINE
SIGNED JOSEPH RANNA IN WIEN, NO. 7008, CASE STAMPED JW FOR JOSEPH WEICHBERGER, CIRCA 1830
Gilt-finished verge movement, chain fusée, engraved and pierced balance cock, white enamel dial, Breguet numerals, hinged within the lyre-shaped case with black champlevé and pearl-set decorated sides, the soundboard with translucent scarlet enamel over engine-turned background and champlevé enamel floral decoration, pearl-set sound hole, four stylised gold strings leading from the pink gold and pearl-set bridges to the pink gold tuning pegs, translucent royal blue enamel over engine-turned background centred by champlevé enamel foliage decoration and a sheet of music, black champlevé scroll decorated border, with a pink gold, tarnslucent red scarlet and diamond-set châtelaine with attached key and blank seal, movement signed, case stamped
29.5 mm. wide & 48 mm. overall length, châtelaine 113 mm. overall length

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US$15,000-20,000

A similar lyre-shaped watch with case stamped JW for Josef Weichberger is described and illustrated in Fantasy Watches - Gems of the Craftman's Art from there Therese Bloch-Bauer Collection by Elisabeth Sturm-Bednarczyk, p. 72, pl. 65.

The watchmaker Joseph Ranna and several of his works are listed in Meister der Uhrmacherkunst by Jürgen Abeler, p. 447.