33,750 HKD
YELLOW GOLD DIAMOND & RUBIES DRESS WATCH Agassiz, Swiss, case No. 1398. Made circa 1915. Very fine and rare, 18K yellow gold, diamond and rubies lady's dress watch. Four-body, solid, bassine, hinged back and cuvette, entirely decorated in a fl ower and leaf motif, case back set with 9 round diamonds and 9 baguette rubies, skeletonized and partially revealing the cuvette decorated in a green sunburst champleve enamel. Ivory enamel with violet painted Breguet numerals, outer gold dot minute division, subsidiary seconds dial. Gold Louis XV hands. Cal. 8 3/4’’’, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 17 jewels, straight-line escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Cuvette signed Swiss and numbered. Diam. 28 mm. Thickness 10 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2012-06-23
