10,350 CHF
Flora. Gustave Baugrand, 19 Rue de la Paix, Paris, circa 1865. Beautiful and very rare 18K gold and painted on enamel half-hunting, keyless fob watch with matching diamond-set chatelaine from a small series of fob watches presented at the 1867 Paris International Exhibition. Four-body, "bassine et filets", the back very finely painted on enamel depicting a young woman perhaps representing Flora, surrounded by an arch and polychrome cornucopias and flower vases, the whole against a black enamel ground painted with gold dots in a pointillistic effect, the front with gold Roman numerals in blue cartouches with painted rose fleur-de-lis, the whole on a black ground en suite with the back cover painted with gold dots, the band painted with a repeated floral pattern, diamond-set bow, gold hinged cuvette. Fob: made of three links joined by seven tapered pivoted gold bars with champlevé azure enamel, the top panel painted with a nymph reclining under a baldachin, the middle one with a mask, and the lower one with scrolls, all with en suite black enamel background with gold dots, each one with a diamond-set frame, the top surmounted by a diamond-set half rosette. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track with five-minute red Arabic markers. Gold "Louis XV" hands.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-10-11
