SWISS | A GOLD, ENAMEL, PEARL AND GEM-SET WATCH MADE FOR THE CHINESE MARKET, CIRCA 1790

Property from an Important Italian Collection

SWISS

A GOLD, ENAMEL, PEARL AND GEM-SET WATCH MADE FOR THE CHINESE MARKET

CIRCA 1790

Movement: gilded full plate with applied scrolling foliate decoration, cylinder escapement, pierced and engraved balance cock, diamond-endstone

Dial: white enamel, Roman numerals, Arabic outer track, centre seconds

Case: gold, back with polychrome enamel scene of an 18th Century lady playing a lyre, pearl and ruby-set bezel, two colour gold floral decoration to the bands, numbered 14942 

diameter 57mm