Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Hotel Du Rhone, Apr 02, 2006

LOT 414

?The Proposal? Hirschauer A Dresden, No. 1307. Made circa 1760. Fine, gold and monochrome red painted on enamel pocket watch

C. Two-body, "Louis XV", the back decorated with a monochrome red painted on enamel scene of a couple in a landscape, the interior decorated with a charming depiction of a wolf, painted on enamel bezel decorated to match. D. White enamel, Breguet numerals, outer minute divisions, winding aperture. Gold "Louis XV" hands. M. 32 mm., hinged, gilt brass full-plate with twisted pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement with micrometric potence adjustment, three-arm brass balance, flat balance spring, pierced foliate continental cock with steel end plate. Movement signed. Diam. 46 mm. To be sold without reserve