Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Hotel Du Rhone, Apr 02, 2006

LOT 417

?Love Trophy? Vaucher A Paris. Made circa 1780. Very fine, 20K gold, painted on enamel, pasteset watch with matching châtelaine and a painted on ivory miniature.

C. Two-body, "Louis XVI", by "LFC", back with oval medallion painted on enamel with Cupid, courting doves, a quiver with love arrows, the temple of love in the background, border with paste-set applied multi-colored gold decoration forming a foliate swag, paste-set bezel. Châtelaine: by "AP", five gold links, the top one set with a painted on ivory miniature depicting a lady showing a man?s portrait to her son, the border with applied multicolored gold floral swags, a crossed quiver and torch at the top, lower panels en suite with doves, musical trophies, hearts, and flower vase, two chains, one with matching key, the other with matching seal. D. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute dot divisions with five-minute Arabic numerals, winding aperture at 1. Gold Breguet hands. M. 28 mm, hinged, frosted gilt full-plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, brass balance with flat balance spring, continental cock with polished steel endplate, silver regulation disc. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 35 mm, length with châtelaine 195 mm.