33,040 HKD
“Cupid at the Altar of Love” Swiss. Made circa 1780. Fine and rare, quarter-repeating, gold and painted on enamel pocket watch. Two-body, leaf-engraved with a continuous band of white enamel reserves and translucent green enamel leaves, the back decorated with a painted on enamel scene of cupid in a landscape playing with two doves beside the altar of love, upon which are two flaming hearts, translucent aqua enamel over an engine-turned border. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer dot minute divisions with five-minute Arabic numerals, winding aperture at 2 o’clock. Gold “leaf” hands. 32 mm, hinged, gilt brass full plate with turned cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring, continental cock with polished steel endplate, silver regulation disc, repeating on a bell activated by depressing the pendant. Diam. 40 mm. Property of an Swiss collector
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-06-02
