Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Nov 16, 2008

LOT 547

King Batory on Horseback The Soldier's Welcome Jaques Decour, London, circa 1740. Very fine and rare, 22K gold pair-cased quarter-repeating pocket watch with à tact option.

C. Outer: two-body, high-relief repoussé back depicting the welcoming of a Roman soldier by two women, pierced and repoussé bezels with flowers and scrolling alternating with four vignettes - two depicting scenes from La Fontaine (1621-1691) and two with a male and a female bust. Inner: two-body, "bassine", with deep back, band pierced finely engraved with inhabited foliage,mask at six o'clock, polished backwith small engraved rosette in the center. Silver dust cap. D. Gold, champlevé radial Roman numerals, outer miute track with five-minute Arabic numerals, applied gold scrolling decoration at the center over blued steel plate. Blued steel beetle and poker hands.M. 37mm, gilt brass full plate with turned baluster pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, four-armbrass balance, blued steel flat balance spring, silver cockwith small streamers pierced and engraved with scrolling foliage, repeating on bell activated by depressing the pendant, small lever at 7 o'clock to change to a tact repeating. Dial, movement and dust cap signed.