Masterworks of Time: Splendours for the East 「時間傑作:西器東傳」

Masterworks of Time: Splendours for the East 「時間傑作:西器東傳」

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 589. A GOLD AND ENAMEL CENTRE SECONDS CYLINDER WATCH WITH MATCHING CHATELAINE CIRCA 1790, NO. 1967 [黃金畫琺瑯懷錶配同款腰鍊,年份約1790,編號1967].

Gregson, à Paris

A GOLD AND ENAMEL CENTRE SECONDS CYLINDER WATCH WITH MATCHING CHATELAINE CIRCA 1790, NO. 1967 [黃金畫琺瑯懷錶配同款腰鍊,年份約1790,編號1967]

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Gregson, à Paris


A GOLD AND ENAMEL CENTRE SECONDS CYLINDER WATCH WITH MATCHING CHATELAINE

CIRCA 1790, NO. 1967

[黃金畫琺瑯懷錶配同款腰鍊,年份約1790,編號1967]


Movement: gilded, cylinder escapement, plain three-arm balance, standing barrel

Dial: white enamel, Arabic numerals, outer ring for minutes/seconds, gold hands, blued steel centre seconds

Case: gold, the back with grey translucent enamel over an engine-turned ground, opaque white enamel central oval crest composed of polychrome enamel painted flaming torch, spear and butterfly, both bezels with deep blue guilloché enamel heighted with gold flowers, plain stirrup pendant and bow, gilt-metal cuvette with apertures for winding and directionals and signed Gregson Hor.r du Roy à Paris, no. 1967

Chatelaine: gold and enamel decorated en suite with the watch case, comprising three central gold chains interspersed by roundels of grey guilloché enamel bordered by white opaque enamel, joined to four smaller pendant chains via a guilloché enamel panel to one side a polychrome enamel crest matching that to the watch case, the reverse with monogram, the four smaller pendant chains terminating in a key, two tassels and a seal - its hardstone setting engraved with the torch/spear/butterfly crest, each of the terminals decorated with enamels, gilt-metal pendant hook


diameter 55mm, chatelaine length 240mm


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Tardy notes in his Dictionnaire des Horlogers Français that Jean Gregson was made watchmaker to the King in 1776 and was recorded at the Rue Dauphine in Paris.