3,360 CHF
The Cornflowers Dumb Quarter-Repeating Etienne Lenoir a Paris, No. 1501. Made circa 1750. Fine, 20K gold, enamel and rose-cut diamond-set, dumb quarter-repeating pocket watch. To be sold without reserve Two-body, Louis XV, decorated on the bezel and back with raised blue cornflowers and green foliage over an engraved ground. Large rose diamond-set thumb pieces. 39 mm., gilt brass full plate with tapered turned pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement with micrometric potence adjustment, plain three-arm steel balance, flat balance spring, silver regulator scale, pierced gilt brass continental cock with polished steel end-piece, dumb quarter repeating with two hammers on blocks activated by depressing the pendant, silence piece in the edge of the engraved dial plate. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 47 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-03-29
