Important Watches, Wristwatches and C...
Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 31, 1998
P. Combret a Lyon, circa 1620. Very fine and extremely rare, 20K gold and enamel mounted smoked rock crystal octagonal, pre-balance spring watch.
C. Double body with hinged gold frame decorated with flinque red and opaque white enamel, matching enamelled bases of the loose-ring pendant and the finial. D. Silver chapter ring with Roman numerals applied on the octagonal gilt brass dial plate engraved with cherubs, a winged angel head and centred with a small landscape, a bagpipes player on the foreground with his clog. Blued steel single hand. M. Hinged gilt brass full plate octagonal with urn pillars, three wheel train, fusee with gut-line, verge escapement, steel twoarm balance without spring, irregular florally pierced and engraved balance cock secured by a pin, the matching ratchet wheel set-up cock with blued steel wheel and click spring. Signed on the back plate. Dim. 63 x 34 mm.