Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 11, 2012

LOT 354

HENRI REDART - ARCHITECTURAL VIEW H(enri) R(edart) & Co., Geneva, No. 8465. Made circa 1845. Fine and rare, 18K gold slim pocket watch with taille-douce engraving and a gold chatelaine with gold egg-form locket. To be sold without reserve

C. Four-body, ?bassine pincée? with coin-edge band, chased and engraved bezels, bow and pendant, the back engraved in taille douce, depicting people strolling in front of a building with a Doric colonnade, gold hinged cuvette. D. Silvered, radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions, central ground engine-turned with a view of a church. Gold Breguet hands. M. 39 mm (17'''), frosted gilt, 8 jewels, bridge caliber, cylinder escapement, three-arm gilt balance with fl at balance spring. Movement signed. Diam. 44 mm.