Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 13, 2012

LOT 223

FOL À PARIS - VARICOLORED GOLD & DIAMONDS QUARTER REPEATING WATCH ? THE FLOWER BASKET Fol à Paris, No. 1561. Made circa 1770. Very fine and rare, Louis XV, small, varicolored gold and rose diamond-set pocket watch with quarter-repeating à toc.

C. Two-body, Louis XV, bezel chased with laurel swags and set with rose diamonds, diamond-set thumb-piece, pendant and bow, the back decorated with a varicolored gold basket of fl owers suspended from a ribbon and with varicolored gold garland border, outer border to match the bezel. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and Arabic fi ve-minute numerals, winding aperture at 2 o?clock. Rose diamond-set elaborate hands. M. 27 mm., matte gilt full plate, tapered cylindrical pillars, fuse and chain, verge escapement, three-arm steel balance, fl at balance spring, pierced and chased continental balance cock, silver regulation dial, repeating on blocks in the back of the case activated by depressing the pendant. Dial and movement signed, case with Paris hallmarks. Diam. 34 mm