556,250 CHF
Not signed, attributed to Piguet & Capt, Geneva, made for the Chinese market, circa 1805. "L'Amphore". Magnificent and extremely rare 18 ct. gold and enamel, pearl-set musical watch with automaton scene, designed as an amphora, suspended from a matching brooch, in original fitted box. Shaped blue enamelled brooch with leaf decoration, inlaid with split-pearls and set with an enamel panel painted with a scene depicting a Cupid playing the flute for a dog and a sheep. Three body urn with champleve enamel and splitpearl decoration, the front face with below the dial an enamel panel painted with a young couple in classical dress, the back with a fine bunch of flower painted on an enamel panel, below a gold champleve cup with Cupid riding a swan. Small eccentric white enamel with Breguet numerals and subsidiary seconds flanked on each side of the balance aperture. Blued steel "spade" hands. The hinged front panel disclose the automaton scene with chased varicoloured gold maiden and Cupid swinging on a bow, over another Cupid playing the drum, against a finely painted enamel lake side landscape, mountains on the back ground. Inverted shaped gilt brass with going barrel, cylinder escapement, rosediamond set balance visible against a blued steel panel, flat balance spring. The automatons are driven by an independent musical train In very good condition. Dim. 140 x 56 mm. Notes Although it is not signed, this watch can be attributed to Piguet & Capt who were the best makers Read more…
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1995-04-22
