Centuries of Time: A Private Collection

Centuries of Time: A Private Collection

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Swiss

A gold, enamel and pearl-set basket-form verge watch Circa 1810, no. 3331

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Auction Closed

May 14, 02:23 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 CHF

Lot Details

Description

Swiss


A gold, enamel and pearl-set basket-form verge watch

Circa 1810, no. 3331


• Movement: unsigned gilded, verge escapement, plain three-arm balance, pierced and engraved balance bridge, silver regulation plate

• Dial: white enamel, Roman numerals, blued steel moon hands, aperture for winding

• Case: gold and enamel  basket-form, the front with pearl-set central and lower border, polychrome enamel painted above with a putti among foliage and roses, below with translucent blue enamel, the back similarly decorated and with polychrome enamel painting of flowers, the band decoratively engraved and heightened with black enamel borders, inside back numbered 3331, case lids with restoration


width 36.5mm

The Collection of Dr. Gustav Bloch, Vienna, Austria. 
By descent to Therese Bloch-Bauer.
Current Collection.
Austrian Museum of Art & Industry, Vienna, 1917.
R. Chadwick, A Voyage Through Time, London: Unicorn, 2020, p. 278.
Edmund Wilhelm Braun-Troppau, The Collection of Form Watches of Gustav Bloch in Vienna, 1917.
Elisabeth Sturm-Bednarczyk, Treasures from the Collection of Therese Bloch-Bauer, 2002.
A very similar watch can be found in the Patek Philippe Museum (Inv. S-343) and is illustrated in, P. Friess, The Emergence of the Portable Watch, Geneva: Patek Philippe Museum, 2015, vol. IV, p. 359. A further similar watch from the collection of the Zale Corporation is illustrated in H. Fried, Cavalcade of Time, 1968, p. 72.