Importantes Montres de Collection

Geneva, May 15, 2011

LOT 333

Berthoud - Portrait de Dame Berthoud A Paris, Swiss. Made circa 1770. Fine, 18K varicolored gold, painted on enamel and paste-set pocket watch with a gold key on short gold chain.

CHF 1,500 - 2,500

USD 1,700 - 2,700 / EUR 1,100 - 2,000

Sold: CHF 1,875

C. Two-body, paste-set bezel, the back decorated with a painted on enamel portrait of a young lady beneath a paste-set coronet, applied varicolored gold border of flowers and foliage. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and large Arabic five-minute numerals, winding aperture at 2 o?clock. Fancy paste-set hands. M. 33 mm., hinged gilt brass full plate, fusee with chain, verge escapement with micrometric potence adjustment, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring, pierced and foliate chased continental type balance cock with polished steel end-piece, silver regulation dial. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 41 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: A

Good

Case: 3-78

Good

ENAMEL AND VARIOUS TYPES OF DECORATION Missing pearl(s)/stone(s)

Movement: 3**

Good

Repair required, at buyer's expense

Dial: 3-71-01

Good

ENAMEL AND VARIOUS TYPES OF DECORATION Hairlines

HANDS Original