Importantes Montres de Collection

Geneva, Nov 13, 2011

LOT 490

L'ALOUETTE ART NOUVEAU JAPANESE LADY Swiss, ?L?Alouette?. Made circa 1890. Fine, Art Nouveau, silver, keyless pocket watch. To be sold without reserve

C. Four-body, the bezel and band decorated with a continuous leaf design, back cover decorated in relief with a Japanese lady in front of a large fan and foliage, border to match the bezel. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals and gold dots, outer minute divisions and Arabic five-minute numerals, subsidiary seconds. Fancy gilt hands. M. 17 ½ ???, matte gilt, cylinder escapement, plain three-arm balance, blued steel fl at balance spring, index regulator. Movement signed L?Alouette. Diam. 51 mm.