Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Mar 10, 2011

LOT 116

Blue Enamel Fancy Dial A. Golay-Leresche & Fils, Genève, Rue de la Paix, Paris, No. 19261. Made circa 1890. Fine 18K yellow gold, diamond-set, guilloche enamel and engraved keyless lady?s pendant watch with blue enamel and diamond set brooch in the shape of a ribbon with a diamond in the center. Accompanied by a fitted traveling box.

C. Four body, solid, hand-engraved with a floral and leaf motif on the case band, the bezel textured, the case back textured with blue and white guilloche enamel, the center with black enamel and set with diamonds, a hinged gold cuvette engraved with a dedication. D. White enamel with painted blue fancy Arabic numerals in circular indexes, gold dots for the minutes, subsidiary seconds. Gold indented lance hands. M. 11"', rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 15 jewels, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial and cuvette signed, numbered on the case. Diam. 30 mm. Thickness 10 mm.