Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong,the Ritz Carlton Hotel,harbour Room, 3rd Floor, Jun 02, 2007

LOT 164

?Cupid at the Altar of Love? Swiss. Made circa 1780. Fine and rare, quarter-repeating, gold and painted on enamel pocket watch.

C. Two-body, leaf-engraved with a continuous band of white enamel reserves and translucent green enamel leaves, the back decorated with a painted on enamel scene of cupid in a landscape playing with two doves beside the altar of love, upon which are two flaming hearts, translucent aqua enamel over an engine-turned border. D. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer dot minute divisions with five-minute Arabic numerals, winding aperture at 2 o?clock. Gold ?leaf? hands. M. 32 mm, hinged, gilt brass full plate with turned cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring, continental cock with polished steel endplate, silver regulation disc, repeating on a bell activated by depressing the pendant. Diam. 40 mm. Property of an Swiss collector