Jupiter en Pluie d'Or Jean Mussard

Jupiter en Pluie d'Or Jean Mussard, Geneva, circa 1710, movement by George Richards, London, No. 16011.Very fine and very rare 18K gold and enamel watch. Two-body, "bassine", the back very finely painted with Danaé being visited by Jupiter disguised as a shower of golden rain, band painted with a continuous rural landscape and a traveler with his donkey against a river landscape background. White enamel, Roman hour chapter, outer minute divisions with five-minute Arabic numerals. Gold "Louis XV" hands. Notes Previously in the Lord Sandberg Collection, sold in Geneva, March 31, 2001, lot 10.For a note, see lot 266.