Italian 22K gold mounted bloodstone and ruby pocket watch Circa 1760
- Kenmerk
- TA1770
- Diameter
- 45 mm
- Estimate
- € 5.500 - 11.000
- Price sold
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Gold open faced verge watch
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A very fine and extremely rare Italian, 22K gold mounted bloodstone and ruby pocket watch, circa 1760. The back is carved from a single piece of bloodstone mounted in gold, the bezel in gold with six applied rubies in cartouches, ruby-set thumbpiece. White enamel dial with painted black radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions with black five-minute Arabic numerals, winding aperture between 3 and 4. Gold Louis XV hands.
A hinged, frosted gilt full plate movement with square baluster pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, three arm balance with flat balance spring, double-footed foliate and engraved balance cock, silver regulation dial.
Movement signed.
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Diameter: 45.5 mm
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A very fine and extremely rare Italian, 22K gold mounted bloodstone and ruby pocket watch, circa 1760. The back is carved from a single piece of bloodstone mounted in gold, the bezel in gold with six applied rubies in cartouches, ruby-set thumbpiece. White enamel dial with painted black radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions with black five-minute Arabic numerals, winding aperture between 3 and 4. Gold Louis XV hands.
A hinged, frosted gilt full plate movement with square baluster pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, three arm balance with flat balance spring, double-footed foliate and engraved balance cock, silver regulation dial.
Movement signed.
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Diameter: 45.5 mm
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Signed: Pietro Debaussie Rome
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Bloodstone is a beautiful, mostly, dark green stone that features red or brown spots that form as a result of impurities in the iron oxide. These spots look like blood splatters, giving the stone its English name. The stone is also referred to as a heliotrope, and gets this name from the Greek words helio, meaning ‘sun’, and tropos, meaning ‘toward the sun’. It’s said that the colour is also reminiscent of heliotrope plants that face towards the sun. The solid green colour that encompasses the rest of the stone is brought in as a result of the amphibole or Chlorite minerals found in the green Chalcedony. Chalcedony is a cryptocrystalline form of silica that’s composed of fine intergrowths of moganite and quartz, the minerals that make up most agate stones too. Because of its varied composition, the green in bloodstone is not always evenly distributed and may have blue or yellow streaks in addition to green. It has been a popular gemstone for at least two thousand years.
Signed: Pietro Debaussie Rome
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Bloodstone is a beautiful, mostly, dark green stone that features red or brown spots that form as a result of impurities in the iron oxide. These spots look like blood splatters, giving the stone its English name. The stone is also referred to as a heliotrope, and gets this name from the Greek words helio, meaning ‘sun’, and tropos, meaning ‘toward the sun’. It’s said that the colour is also reminiscent of heliotrope plants that face towards the sun. The solid green colour that encompasses the rest of the stone is brought in as a result of the amphibole or Chlorite minerals found in the green Chalcedony. Chalcedony is a cryptocrystalline form of silica that’s composed of fine intergrowths of moganite and quartz, the minerals that make up most agate stones too. Because of its varied composition, the green in bloodstone is not always evenly distributed and may have blue or yellow streaks in addition to green. It has been a popular gemstone for at least two thousand years.
Signed: Pietro Debaussie Rome
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