Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Du Rhône, Oct 15, 2006

LOT 200

?The Serenade? Romilly, à Paris, No. 6204. Made circa 1775. Fine, 20K vari-colored gold and painted on enamel pocket watch.

C. Two-body, ?Louis XV?, the back painted with a young lady being serenaded by musicians and dancers in a landscape, the vari-colored border chased with pastoral trophies and flowers in relief, bezel decorated with flowers in relief. D. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track with five-minute Arabic numerals, winding aperture at 4 o?clock. Gold ?Louis XV? hands. M. 37 mm, hinged, gilt brass full plate with pentagonal baluster pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, micrometric potence adjustment, plain steel three-arm balance, flat balance spring, continental cock, silver regulation disc. Movement signed.Diam. 46 mm. To be sold without reserve