Centuries of Time: A Private Collection

Centuries of Time: A Private Collection

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 1361. A gold and polychrome enamel painted lever watch made for the Ottoman market Circa 1835, no. 14035.

Blondel & Melly, à Genève

A gold and polychrome enamel painted lever watch made for the Ottoman market Circa 1835, no. 14035

Auction Closed

May 14, 02:23 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 CHF

Lot Details

Description

Blondel & Melly, à Genève


A gold and polychrome enamel painted lever watch made for the Ottoman market

Circa 1835, no. 14035


• Movement: unsigned frosted gilded bar, straight line lever escapement, flat three-arm balance, blued steel regulation arm with bi-metallic compensation curb, standing barrel, gold cuvette with aperture for winding and hand-setting, cuvette signed and numbered Blondel & Melly, à Genève, no. 14035 & engraved with movement details

• Dial: white enamel dial, Turkish numerals, outer minute ring, gilt moon hands, secret signature beneath 12 o'clock

• Case: gold, the back polychrome enamel painted with a bouquet of flowers and trophies of war, against a simulated shagreen ground of green enamel, the bezel similarly decorated, case back numbered 14035 and with maker's mark FM in oval cartouche


diameter 50.5mm

R. Chadwick, A Voyage Through Time, London: Unicorn, 2020, p. 141. 
For a similarly decorated watch by Blondel & Melly numbered 13720, see Antiquorum Geneva, 13 November 1999, lot 105.