Swiss gold seed pearl set fob watch with chatelaine Circa 1890
- Kenmerk
- BB0415
- Diameter
- 27 mm
- Estimate
- € 1.250 - 2.500
- Price sold
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Gold cylinder watch with chatelaine and brooch
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A Swiss gold and seed pearl set open faced fob watch with complementing chatelaine and brooch, circa 1890. Gilt cylinder movement, three armed balance. Cream enamel dial with black Roman hours, outer minute track with red five minute markers and gilt stone set hands. Case with filigree style back, a central seed pearl, seed pearl set bezels. Comes with a matching chatelaine also set with seed pearls.
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Diameter: 27 mm
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Signed: No name
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A seed pearl is a small natural pearl. Usually less than a one-quarter grain in weight and smaller than 2mm in diameter, off round in shape. They are formed in either a saltwater oyster or freshwater mussel. In the nineteenth century seed pearls were immensely popular. The pearls were imported from India and China.
Today the term ‘seed pearl’ is more widely used to describe a small pearl that has been created as a result of a pearl farmer trying to stimulate the formation of a cultured pearl in a mollusc.
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A Swiss gold and seed pearl set open faced fob watch with complementing chatelaine and brooch, circa 1890. Gilt cylinder movement, three armed balance. Cream enamel dial with black Roman hours, outer minute track with red five minute markers and gilt stone set hands. Case with filigree style back, a central seed pearl, seed pearl set bezels. Comes with a matching chatelaine also set with seed pearls.
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Diameter: 27 mm
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Signed: No name
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A seed pearl is a small natural pearl. Usually less than a one-quarter grain in weight and smaller than 2mm in diameter, off round in shape. They are formed in either a saltwater oyster or freshwater mussel. In the nineteenth century seed pearls were immensely popular. The pearls were imported from India and China.
Today the term ‘seed pearl’ is more widely used to describe a small pearl that has been created as a result of a pearl farmer trying to stimulate the formation of a cultured pearl in a mollusc.
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