Lady’s 18k gold Swiss enamel diamond-set watch Circa 1910

Lady’s gold enamel diamond-set pendant watch
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A lady’s 18k yellow gold Swiss enamel open faced diamond-set pendant watch, circa 1910, jeweled movement, gold cuvette.
White enamel dial, blue Arabic numerals in gilt-framed cartouches, subsidiary seconds, diamond-set bezels.
Hinged back with polychrome enamel portrait of a young lady against a blue ground, case, dial and cuvette signed, associated gilt enamel and diamond-set wing-form pendant.
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Diameter: 26 mm
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Signed: Golay Fils & Stahl
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Golay Fils & Stahl was founded in 1837 by the clockmaker Golay-Leresche at 31, quai des Bergues in Geneva, Switzerland. The company remained in family hands, specialising in watches, until the beginning of the 20th Century. It was then purchased by Stahl, at which time the current name came into existence. In 1962, the firm was purchased by Jacques Wolfgang who headed it until his death in 1976, at which point, his son Jesse took over. Retail operations were ceased in December 1997 to concentrate on wholesale activities at the high end of the jewellery market – the core of the family business for five generations.