Rare French gold and hardstone inlay watch Circa 1840
- Kenmerk
- SB0101
- Diameter
- 37 mm
- Estimate
- € 7.500 - 15.000
- Price sold
- € 8.300
Gold and hardstone inlay watch
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A fine and rare French gold and hardstone inlay pocket watch, circa 1840. Gilt cylinder movement. Pietra dura decoration to the dial inlaid with bloodstone, lapis lazuli, nephrite, white jade, gilt Roman numerals on black enamel ground, gold moon hands. Gold signed cuvette. Case back with similar inlay decoration in the form of a rosette, alternating hardstone design to the band. With a similar decorated hardstone ball attached to the watch by a cord. Cuvette signed, case maker’s mark ‘LS’ for Leopold Secheret.
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A fine and rare French gold and hardstone inlay pocket watch, circa 1840. Gilt cylinder movement. Pietra dura decoration to the dial inlaid with bloodstone, lapis lazuli, nephrite, white jade, gilt Roman numerals on black enamel ground, gold moon hands. Gold signed cuvette. Case back with similar inlay decoration in the form of a rosette, alternating hardstone design to the band. With a similar decorated hardstone ball attached to the watch by a cord. Cuvette signed, case maker’s mark ‘LS’ for Leopold Secheret.
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Diameter: 37 mm
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Signed: Duponchel à Paris
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A similar watch from the same period with this unusual hardstone decoration was sold at Sotheby’s Geneva, lot 161,14 November 2010, Breguet No. 4936 sold on March 20, 1839, to Mme La Générale Adadouroffe. The decoration of the present example is very typical of the production from Jean-Baptiste. Fossin and his son Jules who were highly skilled Paris jewellers. For a time they were the directors of master jewellers at Chaumet.
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Signed: Duponchel à Paris
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A similar watch from the same period with this unusual hardstone decoration was sold at Sotheby’s Geneva, lot 161,14 November 2010, Breguet No. 4936 sold on March 20, 1839, to Mme La Générale Adadouroffe. The decoration of the present example is very typical of the production from Jean-Baptiste. Fossin and his son Jules who were highly skilled Paris jewellers. For a time they were the directors of master jewellers at Chaumet.
Signed: Duponchel à Paris
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