Vauchez, Paris

Property from the Masterworks of Time Collection

Vauchez, Paris

A gold and enamel verge watch

Circa 1790

• Movement: gilded full plate, verge escapement, plain three-arm balance, decoratively pierced and engraved balance bridge, silver regulation plate, fusee and chain, turned pillars, signed Vauchez à Paris

• Dial: white enamel, Roman numerals, Arabic outer minute ring, aperture for winding, gold hands

• Case: gold, case back centred with polychrome enamel painted scene of a lady painting a statue, the sky of translucent pink enamel over an engine-turned ground, bezel with applied vari-colour gold decoration, top of the pendant stamped SG and indistinctly numbered to the side, possibly 2082

diameter 42mm