Les Freres Huaud p., Geneva, circa 1695. Very rare enamelled copper watch, with especially built movement. | Important Wristwatches, Watches & Clocks | Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, 17th October 1992

Important Wristwatches, Watches & Clocks

Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 17, 1992

LOT 219

Les Freres Huaud p., Geneva, circa 1695. Very rare enamelled copper watch, with especially built movement.

CHF 8,000 - 10,000

Sold: CHF 13,800

C. Two-piece gilt-brass frame with chevron engraved border, hinged split-bezel for the glass. Back enamelled on copper, with a scene of Meleager and Atalanta with the Caledonian boar, the border with typical landscape vignettes intersected by masks against lavender foliage. ( some surface scratches, signature partly worn). Loosering foliage. D. White enamel with Roman hour and Arabic five minute numerals. Winding aperture at III, and gilt Louis XV hands. M. Purpose-built movement from approximately 1760, unsigned, gilt full plate with balluster pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, plain balance, flat balance spring Pierced continental cock. Signed on the case In good condition. Diam. 47 mm.

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Cases painted on copper by the Huaud family are very much rarer than examples on gold; somewhat surprisingly in view of the relative cost of the materials. On copper the colours tend to be softer in tone, and indeed this particular case is not at first atypical of their work; the quality of composition is in fact rather better than many painted on gold.