A rare fabergé vari-color gold and Enamel column-form Timepiece, workmaster henrik wigström, st petersburg, circa 1900

the fluting defined in translucent rose Pompadour over a guilloché ground, with white enamel borders, the bezel with reeded sides and pearl-set border supported by a ribbon-tie surmount and hung with floral garlands, the white enamel dial with arabic numerals and pierced gold hands, with ribbon-tied reeded and chased laurel-leaf base raised on a marble socle on four ribbed bun feet, the column surmounted by an urn with flame-finial and applied Vitruvian scroll sides. marked with initials of workmaster and 56 standard, also engraved Fabergé in Cyrillic, the eight-day movement (with two mainsprings) signed Hy. Moser & Co., 25479.

Sold Sotheby's, Geneva, November 18th, 1993