2,880 CHF
Portrait of a Young Lady Romilly à Paris, No. 7490. Made circa 1775. Fine, 20K gold, painted on enamel and rose-cut diamond-set pocket watch. Two-body, the back set with a painted on enamel portrait of a young lady with a flower basket and wearing a bonnet, the border and bezel set with rose-cut diamonds in silver mounts. White enamel, radial Roman numerals intersected by rose-cut diamonds, outer minute track and five-minute Arabic numerals, winding aperture at 2 o’clock. Rose-cut diamond-set hands. 31 mm, hinged, gilt brass full plate with turned cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, micrometric potence adjustment, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring, continental cock, silver regulation disc. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 38 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-11-16
