The Sandberg Watch Collection

Hotel Richemond, Geneva, Mar 31, 2001

LOT 167

The CitternMelly & Roux à Constance, circa 1810.Fine and amusing 18 ct. gold and enamel pearl-set form watch with a concealed dial, designed as a Cittern.

C. Two-body, 'fermée' type, the sound-board with translucent scarlet enamel over a flinqué ground, decorated with a single leaf branch, the border and sound-opening set with half pearls, the balance cock visible through the sound-opening, the front of the neck with black enamel, the sound-box with blue champlevé enamel decorated with a single leaf branch and with an open musical score, the back of the neck in the same enamel, the border with a geometrical pattern, the band with a gold floral patern alternating with half pearls. D. White enamel, Roman chapters, outer minute ring. Blued-steel Breguet hands. M. 22 mm o, hinged, gilt brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, fusee and chain, plain three-arm brass balance, two-footed cock pierced and engraved with scrolls and foliage.Signed on the movement.Diam. 67 x 28 mm. Published in the Sandberg book, page 446-447.