Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Hotel Du Rhone, Apr 02, 2006

LOT 415

?Bloodstone? C(harles) Cabrier, London, No. 2593. Made circa 1760. Very fine, small, 22K gold-mounted bloodstone pocket watch.

C. Two-body, the back carved from a single piece of bloodstone mounted in 22K gold, the bezel in gold mounted bloodstone with six applied plain gold cartouches. D. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions with fifteen-minute Arabic numerals, winding aperture at 4. Gold "Louis XV" hands. M. 28 mm, hinged, frosted gilt full-plate with square baluster pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, three-arm brass balance with flat balance spring, single-footed foliate pierced and engraved cock, silver regulation dial. Movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. To be sold without reserve