6,325 CHF
Marion Lné à Paris, No. 332, circa 1820. Fine 20K gold and enamel, pearl-set watch with silver, gold, enamel, pearl-set châtelaine with pearl-set coronet. Two-body, "Empire", back in translucent green enamel overengine-turning, reeded band, pearl-set bezels. Châtelaine: bymaster jeweler Jean Vincenot, the top with pearl-set coronetsurmounting translucent green enamel cartouches with dia-mond-set initials "E.J." flanked by silver griffins, silver stylizedfoliage below, three silver and gold chains with portrait busts ofa king, queen, knight, and courtiers, center suspension for thewatch, side chains for a seal and key. Gold, champlevéBreguet numerals, outer minute dot divisions, engine-turnedcenter. Blued steel "Breguet" hands. 27 mm, hinged, frostedgilt full-plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, vergeescapement brass balance with flat balance spring, continentalcock.Signed on the movement.Diam. 33 mm, length with châtelaine 210 mm. Notes Jean Vincenot was a well-established jeweler in Paris, who worked at 25 rue des Fossés-St-Germain-l’Auxerrois.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-04-24