Important Collector's Watches, Pocket...

Geneva, Nov 11, 2007

LOT 176

The Rose Gatherer Geneva, Swiss, No. 4974. Made for the Chinese market, circa 1790. Very fine and rare, 18K gold, polychrome enamel and gold paillon-decorated pocket watch.

C. Two-body, Directoire, the bezel decorated with white and blue enamel and silver and blue paillons in a repeating pattern, polished band, the back decorated with a finely painted polychrome enamel scene of a young lady seated in a garden making a rose garland, royal blue translucent enamel background over sunray engine-turning, gold, silver and blue paillon and enamel border. D. White enamel with upright Arabic numerals, outer dot minute divisions, Arabic quarter-hour numerals, winding arbour at 2. Gold fluted fleur-de-lys hands. M. 44 mm., frosted gilt, full plate, conical pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement with micrometric potence adjustment, three-arm brass balance, blued steel flat balance spring, continental-type balance cock, polished steel endplate, silvered regulation dial. Diam. 50 mm.