Swiss gold watch with vase shaped movement Circa 1800

Gold verge pocket watch
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A Swiss 18 carat gold key wind pocket watch, The Vase, circa 1800-1810. The round shaped case is glazed on both sides and has a hinged back. The face shows a small eccentric white enamel dial with Arabic hour numerals, an outer minute track and blued steel hands. Fitted with a gilded brass, engraved and diamond set movement in the shape of a vase with fusee and chain, a verge escapement, monometallic balance and blued steel flat hairspring. The watch comes in an old tortoise shell presentation box.
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Diameter: 49 mm
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Weight: 56 g
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Signed: No name
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These watches are extremely rare. To date, only about ten of these watches are known to exist, most of them in important collections and museums. In 2016, one of these ten watches was sold in Geneva for more than CHF 18.000 (about € 16,515). Another example was auctioned with an estimated price between € 15,000 and € 20,000.
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Further examples are among others in:
The Württembergisches Landesmuseum in Stuttgart, Germany;
The Musée Historique de Bâle in Basel, Switzerland (with a later dial);
The Patek Philippe Museum in Geneva, Switzerland, formerly in the Marcel van Cauwenbergh Collection, sold by Antiquorum in Hong Kong on March 30, 1989,
for € 25,197;
The time Museum in Rockford, Illinois, USA, (a very similar piece) sold by Sotheby’s in New York on June 19, 2002, for USD 16.730 (about € 15,890);
The Musée d’Art et d’Histoire in Geneva, Switzerland, but it was stolen
on November 24, 2002;
An important German private collection.