9,258 CHF
Wien, Austrian, circa 1830. Fine gold and enamel form watch designed as a double bass, with vinaigrette compartment. Two-part, back painted with a pink cameo scene depicting Cupid playing the lyre for three dancing maidens, scarlet flinque chest and keyboard with pierced "F" holes, scarlet enamelled neck with black finger board, gold keys and wire strings. Hinged gilt brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement, plain brass three-arm balance with flat spring and regulator, gilt brass continental. Dim. 79 x 28 mm. Notes A similar watch is published by Oswaldo Patrizzi & Fabienne X. Sturm in Watches offantasy.1790-1850, Geneve 1979, fig. 55.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1999-04-24
