Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Du Rhône, Nov 12, 2006

LOT 162

?The Oval Basket? Aime a Paris, Swiss. Made circa 1800. Very fine and rare, 18K gold and enamel basket form pendant watch with concealed dial. To be sold without reserve

C. Two-body, "fermée" type, the spring-loaded cover with champlevé flowers on a black ground revealing the dial, the body decorated with champlevé flowers on a black and blue enamel ground, rope twist handle with suspension loop. D. White enamel, Breguet numerals, outer minute divisions and Arabic quarters, eccentric winding hole. Gold ?Louis XV? hands. M. 20 mm, hinged, gilt brass full plate, cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement with micrometric potence adjustment, plain three-arm brass balance, pierced and engraved continental cock, silver regulation dial. Dial signed. Dim. 24 mm x 30 mm x 16 mm high. Property of a Swiss Gentleman