Anonymous

Property from the Masterworks of Time Collection

Anonymous

Swiss

No. 5010

A gold and enamel bracelet fitted with a removable miniature cylinder watch

Circa 1850

• Movement: unsigned gilded, cylinder escapement, plain flat three-arm balance  

• Dial: white enamel, Roman numerals, outer minute ring, blued steel moon hands

• Case: gold, the back with polychrome enamel painted scene of two ladies on a terrace within scroll-form borders, gold cuvette with apertures for winding & hand-setting and engraved 'Novedades de Paris, Casa de Sanchez', case back and cuvette numbered 5010

• Bangle: the watch fitted within a gold and polychrome enamel bangle-form bracelet, the hinged cover with polychrome enamel painted scene of a gentleman and lady within a landscape setting, the sky of translucent pink guilloche enamel, surrounded by an asymmetric border and enamel scrolls, the cover opening to reveal recess for the removable miniature watch surrounded by finely chased and engraved scrollwork, watch secured by a bezel, the bangle joined by translucent blue and opaque white enamel scrolls heightened by seed pearls, recessed sliding clasp closure

watch diameter 24mm, max. width of bangle 49.5mm