Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

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

LOT 183

?Andromache? Lepine INVENIT ET FECIT, Paris. Made circa 1780. Very fine 18K gold, enamel and diamond-set pocket watch with ivory miniature in a protective case. To be sold without reserve

C. Protective: polished, glazed on the back. Inner: two-body, the back centered by a navette-shaped painted on ivory monochrome miniature depicting Andromache mourning Hector sitting in front of a vase on a pedestal, rose-cut diamond-set frame, translucent red enamel border over circular engine-turning, bezels engraved in repeated pattern, front bezel and bow set with rose-cut diamonds, gilt brass hinged cuvette with aperture for the balance cock. D. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track with five-minute Arabic numerals. Elaborate rose-cut diamond-set hands. M. 30 mm, frosted gilt full-plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, micrometric potence adjustment, brass balance with flat balance spring, continental cock, silver regulation disc. Dial signed. Diam. 47 mm. Property of a Swiss Collector