Fine Watches
Fine Watches
Lot Closed
June 22, 07:44 PM GMT
Estimate
800 - 1,200 USD
Lot Details
Description
Rousseau JNV. FEC.
A gilt metal and glass pocket sundial and compass, Circa 1790
Dial: central white enamel dial calibrated from 6 to 6, centered by an enamel sundial with a gilt metal gnomon fixed above a compass, the surround with Cardinal directions
Case: gilt metal, domed glass, white colored glass back
Size: 56 mm diameter, 24 mm height inclusive of the domed glazing
Signed: dial
Box: no
Papers: no
For a sundial in the form of a watch signed Rousseau Invenit, see Osvaldo Patrizzi, Dictionnaire Des Horlogers Genevois p.355