The Sandberg Watch Collection

Hotel Richemond, Geneva, Mar 31, 2001

LOT 225

D. Hubert, London No 1846, marked GA over PE in cartouche, circa 1760.Very fine and rare 18 ct. gold, diamond-, red garnet-, and tourmaline-set lady's pendant watch accompanied by a chatelaine with crank key and two seals.

C. Two-body, 'Louis XV', the back carved from a large, deep red garnet, mounted in a gold frame, hinged bezel set with diamonds and tourmalines, the pendant set with a diamond. The hook top of the chatelaine with a faceted garnet within a diamond-set frame, the hinged gold strap set with diamonds and flanked by gold chains, a ruby-set cornelian seal on either side. D. White enamel, Roman chapters, outer minute ring with five-minute Arabic numerals. Blued-steel beetle and poker hands. M. 21.3 mm, hinged, gilt brass full plate, turned baluster pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, plain three-arm brass balance, blued-steel balance spring, one-footed gilt cock pierced and engraved with foliage and a mask, diamond endstone.Signed on dial and movement, chatelaine stamped 'GAPE'.Diam. 30 mm., chatelaine 120 mm. Published in the Sandberg book, pages 148-149.