French 18k varicoloured gold quarter repeating watch Circa 1830
- Kenmerk
- TA1624
- Diameter
- 41 mm
- Estimate
- € 4.500 - 10.000
- Price sold
- € 4.450
Gold open faced verge watch
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A very fine and rare, small French, 18K varicoloured gold, paste-set, granulation decorated, quarter-repeating lady’s pendant watch, circa 1830. Very elaborately decorated with applied varicoloured gold forming a foliate and floral pattern with paste-set petals, paste-set rosette in the centre, graduated granulation on edges, whole on a finely matted gold background, band, bezel, bow, and pendant en suite. Hinged gold cuvette. Gold dial, champleve radial Roman numerals, outer minute dot divisions, engine-turned centre, outermost engraved with repeated pattern. Blued steel Breguet hands. A frosted gilt movement, full-plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement brass balance with flat balance spring, continental cock, repeating on gongs activated by depressing the pendant. Cuvette signed. Property of a Swiss Collector.
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Diameter: 41 mm
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A very fine and rare, small French, 18K varicoloured gold, paste-set, granulation decorated, quarter-repeating lady’s pendant watch, circa 1830. Very elaborately decorated with applied varicoloured gold forming a foliate and floral pattern with paste-set petals, paste-set rosette in the centre, graduated granulation on edges, whole on a finely matted gold background, band, bezel, bow, and pendant en suite. Hinged gold cuvette. Gold dial, champleve radial Roman numerals, outer minute dot divisions, engine-turned centre, outermost engraved with repeated pattern. Blued steel Breguet hands. A frosted gilt movement, full-plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement brass balance with flat balance spring, continental cock, repeating on gongs activated by depressing the pendant. Cuvette signed. Property of a Swiss Collector.
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Diameter: 41 mm
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Signed: Lhoest Paris
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Granulation a technique using tiny beads of gold was employed and probably invented, by the ancient Etruscans. The present lot employs real granulation, which is rare. Most of the watches from the period using this method employed a technique in which ready-to-apply gold beads wires were soldered onto the surface, thereby forming the desired pattern. Lhoest is recorded by Tardy as working in Paris around 1820 at rue du Fg St-Honoré.
Signed: Lhoest Paris
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Granulation a technique using tiny beads of gold was employed and probably invented, by the ancient Etruscans. The present lot employs real granulation, which is rare. Most of the watches from the period using this method employed a technique in which ready-to-apply gold beads wires were soldered onto the surface, thereby forming the desired pattern. Lhoest is recorded by Tardy as working in Paris around 1820 at rue du Fg St-Honoré.
Signed: Lhoest Paris
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