Centuries of Time: A Private Collection

Centuries of Time: A Private Collection

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Charles Oudin, Palais Royal

A gold, enamel and diamond-set keyless cylinder watch with matching chatelaine Circa 1870, no. 21739

Auction Closed

May 14, 02:23 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 CHF

Lot Details

Description

Charles Oudin, Palais Royal


A gold, enamel and diamond-set keyless cylinder watch with matching chatelaine

Circa 1870, no. 21739


• Movement: frosted gilded bar with wolf's tooth winding, cylinder escapement, fusee and chain, flat three-arm balance, signed Ch. Oudin, Palais Royal

• Dial: white enamel, Roman numerals, outer minute ring with red Arabic numerals, filigree hands

• Case: gold, the back polychrome enamel painted with a pastoral scene depicting a young lady and man with a sheep at their feet and a dog beside a basket of flowers, front and back with rose-cut diamond-set bezels, pendant with French control mark, polished gold cuvette centred with engraved monogram and signed to the perimeter Charles Oudin, Her de la Marine, Palais Royal 52, no. 21739, Medailles de 1806 a 1867

Chatelaine: matching gold chatelaine of green, pink and yellow gold, diamond-set palmette and pearl-set shell, two pendant chains set with diamonds and pearls, the pendant hook's panel with a young lady and her two children in a landscape setting, surrounded by a diamond-set border, gilt-metal pendant hook


diameter 30mm, chatelaine length 80mm

Chadwick, A Voyage Through Time, London: Unicorn, 2020, pp. 98-99.
Charles Oudin, a gifted and innovative watch and clockmaker, was a pupil of Abraham-Louis Breguet. By 1805 he was established on his own at the Palais Royal, Galerie de Pierre, where he worked until 1820. Thereafter the business's premises moved several times with addresses variously at the Galerie Montpensier, the Palais National, and Palais Royal. Charles Oudin was appointed watchmaker to the French Navy and the Emperor and Empress of Russia. In 1836 the business was transferred to Charles's son, Charles-Raymond, who in turn sold the firm to A. Charpentier around 1857.