Vienna, Austria

Property from the Masterworks of Time Collection

Vienna, Austria

A polychrome enamel bonbonnière with inset keyless winding timepiece

Circa 1875

• Movement: gilt bar, cylinder escapement, plain three-arm balance, flat blued steel hairspring

• Dial: white enamel, Roman numerals, outer minute ring, the centre with polychrome enamel painted flowers 

• Case: in the form of a bonbonnière, polychrome enamel painted to the lid and base (the base restored) with putti playing and listening to music by the shores of a lake, aperture for timepiece to the lid, the back of the timepiece set with winder and adjuster for hand-setting, the inside of the body and lid with classical lakeside scenes

width 54mm, bezel diameter 17mm