The Sandberg Watch Collection

Hotel Richemond, Geneva, Mar 31, 2001

LOT 261

Meleager and AtalantaJacobus Garnault, Hague, enamel painting signed by les Frères Huaut, circa 1688.Magnificent and rare gold and enamel, single-hand pendant watch.

C. Two-body, 'bassine' with curved-in edges, entirely painted on enamel, the main scene on the back, depicting Meleager and Atalanta, taken from an engraving by Cornelis Bloemaert after a painting by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1641). Meleager, the King of Calydon's son, presents Atalanta, the virgin huntress, with a boar's head after the Calydonian boar hunt. The band decorated with four vignettes each depicting a different house situated close to a lake or a river, linked by a yellow ribbon. The eamel inside the back with a fisherman in a lakescape, later gold pendant and bow. D. White enamel radial Roman chapter ring with half-hour markers, the centre with a finely painted scene of Diana reposing with a garland of flowers in her hand. Blued-steel hand. M. 33.5 mm o, hinged, gilt brass full plate, pierced tulip pillars, fusee and chain for the going train, verge escapement with short balance spring, double-footed early trefoil cock pierced and engraved, worm and wheel set-up, rack and piion regulator with silver plate.Signed on the movement, case signed Les Frères Huaut.Diam. 41 mm. Published in the Sandberg book, pages 110-111.