The Sandberg Watch Collection

Hotel Richemond, Geneva, Mar 31, 2001

LOT 164

The Holy Virgin.Enamel painting in the manner of Jean André, Geneva, circa 1740, movement unsigned, probably German, circa 1775.Very fine and rare, 35-hour going, 18 ct. gold and enamel watch with skeletonised movement and special escapement.

C. Two-body, 'Louis XV', the centre back medallion painted on enamel with the Virgin Mary Annunciate,the bezels with floral and foliate pattern on white enamel ground with engine-turned borders.D. White enamel, Roman chapters, outer minute ring with five-minute Arabic numerals. Gold 'Louis XV' hands. M. 36.8 mm o, blued-steel pillar plate with applied silver mask pierced with flowers, three turned steel pillars for the two-level bridge, going barrel, the train set in a steel cage on the lower level for the wheel train, cylinder escapement with unusual form of lifting teeth on the escape wheel, plain steel three-arm balance, blued-steel short spring, on the upper level three-armed polised steel cock secured by pins.Diam. 48 mm. Published in the Sandberg book, page 158-159.