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Pierre Dutens, London. A very fine and rare enameled gold verge watchMid 18th century, no. 271, the case probably Geneva, early 18th century.
12 June 2012, 13:00 EDT
Los AngelesUS$35,000 - US$45,000
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Pierre Dutens, London. A very fine and rare enameled gold verge watch
Mid 18th century, no. 271, the case probably Geneva, early 18th century.
Gilt full plate fusee movement with square baluster pillars, pierced cock with broad foot finely engraved with scrolls serpents and grotesque mask, diamond endstone, white enamel roman chapter ring with fleur de lis half hour marks, winding aperture between III and IIII o'clock, sunk center enameled with floral diaper work, gold scroll hands, the bezel of the gold case enameled with further diaper work, gold scroll capped pendant, the back finely painted with a scene of the Holy Family with the infant St. John in a pastoral landscape. 43mm
Gilt full plate fusee movement with square baluster pillars, pierced cock with broad foot finely engraved with scrolls serpents and grotesque mask, diamond endstone, white enamel roman chapter ring with fleur de lis half hour marks, winding aperture between III and IIII o'clock, sunk center enameled with floral diaper work, gold scroll hands, the bezel of the gold case enameled with further diaper work, gold scroll capped pendant, the back finely painted with a scene of the Holy Family with the infant St. John in a pastoral landscape. 43mm
Footnotes
The surviving work of Peter Dutens, active in London c. 1759 – 62 , with premises in Leicester Square, includes fine decorative watches. The reuse of fine earlier Geneva enamels is not uncommon in mid 18th century English watches. Examples which contain movements by Josiah Emery and the brothers Daniel and Thomas Grignon are in the collection of the Taft Museum, Cincinnati. For a discussion see: Snellenburg, Jonathan. Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Watches, in The Catalogue of European Decorative Arts in The Taft Museum (1995) pp 405-454.