1,298 CHF
“The Black Cherry” Ant. (oine) Moilliet & Cie, Geneva, No.18204. Made circa 1800. Fine and rare, 18K gold and enamel urn form watch with concealed dial. To be sold without reserve Two-body, "fermée" type, the spring-loaded cover revealing the dial, both covers decorated with black enamel and champlevé enamel butterfly, bird and dog, the top with blue enamel rosette. White enamel, Breguet numerals, outer minute divisions. Gold "spade" hands. 18 mm., hinged, gilt brass full plate, cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement with micrometric potence adjustment, plain three-arm brass balance, continental cock pierced and engraved, silver regulation dial. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 26 x 22 mm. Property of a Swiss Gentleman Notes Antoine Moilliet & Cie are listed as working from 1790-1810. “Dictionnaire des Horlogers Genevois”, Osvaldo Patrizzi, Antiquorum Editions, 1998.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-11-12
