20,000 CHF
CORUM - "CHASSE AU SANGLIER" - UNIQUE GOLD & HAND-PAINTED ENAMEL WATCH Corum, Swiss. Made circa 2000. Very fine and unique, 18K gold and painted on enamel keyless pocket watch. Accompanied by a Corum Warranty (blank) and instruction manual. Three-body, bassine et filets, polished, stepped bezel, reeded band, the back set with a finely painted hand-painted on enamel scene of a medieval boar hunt with three figures with crossbows and a dog in a forest, the boar to the right of the scene. White enamel with applied graduated black radial Roman numerals and dot indexes, subsidiary seconds. Black Breguet numerals. 16 ½''', rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 18 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating flat balance spring, shock absorber, micrometer regulator. Notes Dial and movement signed, enamel signed "K" within a circle. DIAM. 46 mm. Property of a distinguished Collector The attractive medieval scene painted on the back of this watch is taken from Gaston Phoebus's Book of the Hunt of 1405 in the Bibliotheque Nationale France.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2014-05-11
