Centuries of Time: A Private Collection

Centuries of Time: A Private Collection

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Noll à Paris

A slim gold, enamel and pearl-set verge watch Circa 1795

Auction Closed

May 14, 02:23 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 CHF

Lot Details

Description

Noll à Paris


A slim gold, enamel and pearl-set verge watch

Circa 1795


• Movement: slim gilded full plate, verge escapement, flat three-arm balance, decoratively pierced and engraved balance bridge, regulation arm recessed into dial plate beside cock, the backplate partially cut away to reveal a part of the fusee and barrel, signed signed Noll à Paris 

• Dial: white enamel dial, Arabic numerals, outer minute ring, blued steel moon hands, aperture for winding, signed Noll à Paris

• Case: gold, the back with restored polychrome enamel painted scene depicting the Parting of Aberlard and Eloisa after Angelica Kauffman against a translucent blue guilloché ground, bordered by two rows of pearls, front bezel pearl-set and with white enamel band, gold pendant heightened with translucent blued enamel and stamped DL, 75


diameter 50mm