Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Nov 16, 2008

LOT 33

Skeletonized Michel Fortin a Paris. Dated 1767. Very fine and rare, 18K gold pocket watch with visible skeletonizedmovement, and the original glazed and gilt metal outer case.

C. Outer: two-body, glazed back. Inner: two-body, both sides glazed, the bezels chased with oval paterae on a matte ground and with pie-crust borders. D.White enamel with dauphine numerals, outer dot minute divisions and Arabic quarter-hour numerals, outer red-painted date ring. Fine pierced gold hour and minute hands, steel serpentine date hand. M. 36 mm., skeletonized, frosted gilt, foliate engraved backplate, three cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, micrometer adjustment to the potence, gold three-arm balance with perpendicular limiting pin acting against two polished steel plates mounted at each side of the backplate, flat balance spring, polished steel endplate, index regulator. Movement signed and dated. Diam. 45 mm (50 mm with the outer case).