8,625 CHF
Lassalle & Cie, Paris, retailed by Fontana Frères, Palais Royal, Galerie de Valois 22-23-24, Paris, made for Duchess "C. N.", circa 1860. Fine and rare 18K gold, enamel, brown jasper, and pearl-set fob watch with matching chatelaine in original fitted leather box. Four-body, "bassine" with coin-edge band, back a single piece of brown jasper with applied gold ducal crown, gold hinged cuvette. Chatelaine: the top designed as a shield from a single piece of brown jasper mounted in yellow gold with applied enamel coat of arms, flanked by two lions rampant and surmounted by a gold, enamel, and pearl-set ducal crown, gold spoon, three gold chains; one for the watch, one for a matching seal, and another for a matching key. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions. Blued steel Breguet hands.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-10-11
