The Sandberg Watch Collection

Hotel Richemond, Geneva, Mar 31, 2001

LOT 168

The CitternUnsigned, Geneva, case circa 1810, casemaker's mark JW., movement circa 1900.Fine 18 ct. gold and enamel pearl-set form watch with a concealed dial, designed as a Cittern.

C. Two-body, 'fermée' type, 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 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 pattern alternating with half pearls. D. White enamel, Romachapters, outer minute ring. Blued-steel Breguet hands. M. LeCoultre, gilt brass bridge calibre, cylinder escapement, nicely converted to key-wound.Diam. 67 x 28 mm. Published in the Sandberg book, page 446-447.