French 18k gold decorated lever pocket watch Circa 1905
- Kenmerk
- SA0726
- Diameter
- 48 mm
- Estimate
- € 3.000 - 6.000
- Price sold
- € 6.250
Fine gold decorated gold open-faced lever watch
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A very fine French 18-carat gold open-faced pocket watch, circa 1905. Manual wind nickel lever movement, 17 jewels, bimetallic compensation balance. Silvered sunburst dial with Arabic numerals, outer minute track, and blued steel Breguet hands. Case with scrolls and floral decoration to the bezel, a scene cast in relief to the back. Case, dial and movement signed by the maker, case back signed by I. Roukhomovsky.
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Diameter: 48 mm
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Signed: Spaulding & Co Paris
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The case back inscribed in relief with the phrase ‘Nec Magnos Metuent Armenta Leones,’ which translates roughly to ‘having no fear of the lions’ and is taken from Virgil’s Eclogues, also known as his Bucolics. The Eclogues were published around 38 BC and were a collection of ten poems based on ‘pastoral poems’ of Theocritus.
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It is believed that the master goldsmith, Israel Roukhomovsky, was commissioned to make a small number of gold watch cases depicting the scene on this watch. These cases were made for exceptional jewelers in Europe and the present watch remains in original and well-preserved condition. This is the 3rd example of the Roukhomovsky case that has appeared in public.
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A very fine French 18-carat gold open-faced pocket watch, circa 1905. Manual wind nickel lever movement, 17 jewels, bimetallic compensation balance. Silvered sunburst dial with Arabic numerals, outer minute track, and blued steel Breguet hands. Case with scrolls and floral decoration to the bezel, a scene cast in relief to the back. Case, dial and movement signed by the maker, case back signed by I. Roukhomovsky.
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Diameter: 48 mm
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Signed: Spaulding & Co Paris
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The case back inscribed in relief with the phrase ‘Nec Magnos Metuent Armenta Leones,’ which translates roughly to ‘having no fear of the lions’ and is taken from Virgil’s Eclogues, also known as his Bucolics. The Eclogues were published around 38 BC and were a collection of ten poems based on ‘pastoral poems’ of Theocritus.
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It is believed that the master goldsmith, Israel Roukhomovsky, was commissioned to make a small number of gold watch cases depicting the scene on this watch. These cases were made for exceptional jewelers in Europe and the present watch remains in original and well-preserved condition. This is the 3rd example of the Roukhomovsky case that has appeared in public.
Signed: Spaulding & Co Paris
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