A Fabergé silver-mounted guilloché and seed-pearl desk-clock, workmaster Michael Perchin, St Petersburg, 1899-1908

circular, the aperture set above centre, the deep blue translucent enamel decorated with gold foil ribbon-tied laurel and berry garlands, entrelac border, the white enamel dial, with Arabic numerals and openwork gold hands, within a seed-pearl border, the ivory back inscribed Puisse-t-elle ne jamais marquer pour toi que des heurs heureuses, silver strut, marked Fabergé with workmaster's initials and scratched inventory number 22512, 88 standard

Christie's, Geneva, 17th May 1995, lot 400
The Fabergé collection of Chevalier Maurice F. Mizzi