6,875 CHF
Coulin & Bry – The Hero’s Return Jacques Coulin & Amy Bry à Geneve, No. 3333. Made circa 1785. Very fine, 18K gold and painted on enamel pair-cased, paste-set pocket watch. Double-body: outer, Louis XVI, with paste-set bezel, the back with painted enamel scene of a lady greeting her amour in a classical landscape, gold paillon border within a paste-set and enamel leaf border. Inner: two-body, polished. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and Arabic five-minute numerals. Gold Louis XV hands. Hinged gilt brass full plate with pentagonal baluster pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring, continental cock with polished steel endplate, silver regulation dial. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 48 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-03-27
