91,500 CHF
Spring. Blossoms Piguet & Meylan, Geneva, No. 8458, circa 1825, made for the Chinese market. Very fine and rare 18K gold and painted on enamel, pearl-set, quarter-repeating watch with independent dead center seconds. Four-body, basket-shaped, enameled band, back with a finely painted spray of spring flowers on a dark blue guilloché enamel ground, bezels, pendant and bow set with half pearls, gold hinged cuvette finely decorated with champlevé enamel. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, Arabic quarters, center seconds. Blued steel ”diamond” hands. Notes The pendant piece, bearing the preceding number, is in the Wilsdorf Rolex Collection and is illustrated Pl. 36 and p. 193 in the book “Montres et Emaux de Genève”. For a biography of Piguet & Meylan, see page 28 and 29 of the first catalogue.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-10-11
