Geneva, May 14, 2023
LOT 75
''CHASTE SUSAN'' BY LES DEUX FRERES HUAUD LES JEUNES
CHF 10,000 - 30,000
EUR 10,200 - 30,600 / USD 11,300 - 33,800 / HKD 89,000 - 266,000
Sold: CHF 13,750
Very fine and rare 20K gold and enamel prebalance spring watch.
Bassine form case, the back painted on all surfaces with polychrome colours, the back with a scene depicting "Chaste Susan" after a painting from the period, the band with landscape vignettes, framed in sepia and yellow and interspersed with blue panels decorated with ribbon scrolls, signed at 6 o'clock in a cartouche: Les deux Freres Huaud les Jeunes, interior with a ruin in classical landscape after Gabriel Perelle, foliate engraved gold split bezel for the glass.
Bassine form case, the back painted on all surfaces with polychrome colours, the back with a scene depicting "Chaste Susan" after a painting from the period, the band with landscape vignettes, framed in sepia and yellow and interspersed with blue panels decorated with ribbon scrolls, signed at 6 o'clock in a cartouche: Les deux Freres Huaud les Jeunes, interior with a ruin in classical landscape after Gabriel Perelle, foliate engraved gold split bezel for the glass.
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Grade: |
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Case: 3-32 |
Good Slightly restored |
Movement: 3* |
Good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 3-01 |
Good HANDS Original |
Brand Abraham Cailliatte, Switzerland
Year Circa 1675
Material 20K gold
Caliber 14''',Hinged gilt brass full plate with pierced quatrefoil pillars, fusee with gut-line, three-wheel train with verge escapement, plain two-arm steel balance without spring, florally pierced gilt brass foliate pierced and engraved oval cock secured by a screw. Worm-and-wheel set-up with pierced silver brackets and indicating disc.
Diameter 40 mm.
Signature Case and movement
Notes
The scene depicted on the back of this watch is an allegory drawn from the Book of Daniel: While basing in a river, Susan was solicited by to old men, who upon her refusal, publicly accused her of having seduced them. She proved her innocence by her chastity. Caillate Abraham (1642-1710) originally a refugee from France, he appears to have specialised in gold and enamel watches.