Unique Swiss gold and enamel dress watch with miniature Circa 1990

Gold watch with exceptional enamel portrait
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An extremely fine and unique Swiss 18 carat yellow gold hunting cased keyless dress watch, circa 1990. With exceptional polychrome painted-on enamel miniature Grandfather with sleeping granddaughter. Accompanied by the original Patek Philippe fitted box and Certificate of Origin, a Japanese registered guarantee card and booklets. Sold on 11th November 1993.
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A polished case, the front decorated with a painted-on enamel miniature by Suzanne Rohr after the painting by Albert Anker, case back with floral engravings and initial K.J. White enamel dial with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and black Louis XV hands. Rhodium plated movement, Geneva striping decoration, stamped twice with the Seal of the Geneva quality mark, 18 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronisms and five positions, self compensating blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan neck micrometre regulator. Dial, case and movement signed, the enamel signed A. Anker – S. Rohr.
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Diameter: 46 mm
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Signed: Patek Philippe  Genève
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Some scratches on the case
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Along with Marthe Bischoff and L. Pellarin-LeRoy, Suzanne Rohr was one of the very few enamellists capable of producing such exquisite work for Patek Philippe. Each of the watches painted by Rohr was made as a unique piece. Her scrupulous attention to detail and long experience with the technique of painting on enamel could be said to have reached its zenith in the creation of the present watch.
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Albert Anker was born in 1831 and died in 1910.