Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 10, 2013

LOT 391

CHAUMET - LAPIS & DIAMOND TABLE CLOCK 'SCULPTURE DE CHEVAUX' Chaumet, No. 3360 RE. Made circa 1980. Very fine and elegant, gold, silver-gilt, lapis-lazuli and diamond-set with a total of 95 diamonds, quartz table clock. Accompanied by the original Chaumet fitted box.

Oval columnar-form, fluted, the top and lower edges with engraved line decoration and set with brilliant-cut white diamonds in groups of three, inclined lapis lazuli base on a further stepped silver-gilt base, bezel set with brilliant-cut white diamonds, hinged back door, surmounted by a three-dimensional sculpture of a horse's head carved from a solid piece of lapis-lazuli. Lapis-lazuli with applied round white diamond-set hour indexes. Yellow gold baton hands. With quartz standardization.