HUAUD LE PUIS NÉ | A FINE GOLD AND POLYCHROME ENAMEL PAINTED PAIR CASED WATCH CASE WITH LATER MOVEMENT SIGNED JEREMIAS KRAEMER, REVALCASE CIRCA 1680, MOVEMENT CIRCA 1720

• Movement: later Dutch gilded full plate, verge escapement, silver decoratively pierced and engraved winged masked balance cock, plain flat three-arm brass balance with short spring, silver regulation disc, fusee and chain, square baluster pillars, signed Jeremias Kraemer, Reval and numbered 10• Dial: later white enamel, Roman numerals, outer Arabic minute ring, blued steel beetle and poker hands, aperture for winding• Case: polychrome enamel painted gold case the back with scene depicting Venus and Adonis, inside back with pastoral scene showing a fisherman by a lake in the foreground with a village behind, the rounded case sides with four pastoral scenes interspersed with yellow leaf-form scrolls and bows, signed Huaud Le Puisné, leather covered outer protective case decorated with gold piqué work in the form of stylised flower heads, bezel decorated with further gold pin work

Christie's, Geneva, 15 May 2006, lot 387

Dial: There is a winding square both to the backplate and through the aperture to the enamel dial. A couple of very small scratches towards the top of the scene to the inside case back Case: Some small abrasions to the pastoral scenes to the case sides, the scene to the case back with some small scratches. The later dial with enamel repair around the winding aperture, chips around the dial catch. Leather to outer case with some areas of loss, especially to the bezel, some gold pins also missing. Movement: later Dutch gilded full plate, verge escapement, silver decoratively pierced and engraved winged masked balance cock, plain flat three-arm brass balance with short spring, silver regulation disc, fusee and chain, square baluster pillars, signed Jeremias Kraemer, Reval and numbered 10
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The vibrant enamel work of Huaud Frères has long been admired by many collectors, considered today as the best known and most prolific family of enamellers of their time. The father, Pierre Huaud I (1612 -1680), was a Protestant of French origin who moved to Geneva, where he became an inhabitant in 1630. He finished his apprenticeship as a goldsmith with Laurent Légaré in 1634 and soon after became a Master Goldsmith. His three sons also became enamel painters: Pierre II (1647-c.1698), Jean-Pierre (1655-1723) and the younger brother Ami (1657-1729) were appointed enamel painters by the Brandenburg Elector Frederick III.