Important Watches, Wristwatches and C...

Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 18, 1997

LOT 587

Freres Veigneur a Geneve, No. 12294, circa 1800. Fine gilt brass and enamel paste-set watch.

C. Double body, Directoire, with paste-set bezels, the back enamel panel with a fine portrait of a maiden within a paste-set frame, outer paillonne floral and foliage decoration over a blue ground. D. White enamel with Arabic numerals and outer minute ring. Louis XVI paste-set hands. M. Hinged gilt brass full plate with conical pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring, gilt brass continental cock with polished steel end-piece. Signed on the dial and back plate. Diam. 59 min.