Pierre Rigaud à Genève. A gilt metal and enamel pair case verge watch set with brilliants and a gilt metal chatelaine
No. 58101, third quarter 18th century
Full plate fusee movement with square baluster pillars, pierced cock engraved with scrolls and grotesque mask, endstone, signed white enamel dial with roman chapter ring and arabic minute numerals, pierced gilt hands modeled with leaves, plain inner case, outer case with enamel portrait panel set within frame of paste brilliants on blue enamel ground, the bezel enhanced with further ring of paste, the associated mid-18th century chatelaine of four gilt metal panels pierced and chased with mythological figures within rocaille borders, suspending four short chains each with a 19th century advertising watch key. 38 mm
Full plate fusee movement with square baluster pillars, pierced cock engraved with scrolls and grotesque mask, endstone, signed white enamel dial with roman chapter ring and arabic minute numerals, pierced gilt hands modeled with leaves, plain inner case, outer case with enamel portrait panel set within frame of paste brilliants on blue enamel ground, the bezel enhanced with further ring of paste, the associated mid-18th century chatelaine of four gilt metal panels pierced and chased with mythological figures within rocaille borders, suspending four short chains each with a 19th century advertising watch key. 38 mm
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US$ 1,625
inc. premium
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