The Sandberg Watch Collection

Hotel Richemond, Geneva, Mar 31, 2001

LOT 371

Feeding the DucksUnsigned, Geneva, No. 1333, circa 1820.Very fine 18 ct. gold and enamel, pearl-set watch made for the Chinese market.

C. Four-body, 'Empire', spring-loaded back with finely painted enamel scene of two children, a girl feeding ducks and a boy holding an eager dog in a woodland landscape, pearl-set bezels, the band pearl-set with translucent red enamel over engine-turning, hinged gilt cuvette. D. Matted gold, engine-turned centre, champlevé radial Roman chapter ring, outer minute dot divisions. Gold 'serpentine' hands. M. 35.3 mm o, gilt brass full plate, circular pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, brassthree-arm balance, flat balance spring, two-footed cock pierced and engraved, rack and pinion regulator with silver plate.Diam. 57 mm. Published in the Sandberg book, pages 328-329.