Details

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

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.