Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 11, 2012

LOT 188

DUCHENE - GARDEN OF LOVE ? WATCH, CHATELAINE & SNUFF BOX Louis Duchène & Fils, (Genève), No. 49366, the snuff box by Guidon, Rémond & Compagnie. Made circa 1800. Very fine and rare, 18K gold, polychrome painted on enamel and pearl-set pocket watch, gold and painted on enamel chatelaine and circular gold and painted on enamel snuff box. Accompanied by a fitted box.

C. Two-body, ?Empire?, hinged seed pearl-set bezel, the band decorated with engraved repeat pattern, the back with a fi nely painted Geneva enamel scene of a young couple seated in a garden within a shield-shaped gold paillon border, translucent royal blue enamel outer border over engine turning with white enamel and blue paillon fl ower and foliate decoration, pearl-set border. The chatelaine : pierced gold chains, two panels fi nely painted on enamel with oval scenes of a young lady with a basket of fl owers in the lower panel and with a dog at her knee in the central panel, the upper panel and reverses decorated with gold paillon fl owers and urns on Royal ble translucent guilloche enamel grounds within white enamel borders, two vacant seals en suite. D. White enamel, Arabic numerals, outer minute divisions, winding aperture at 2 o'clock. Gold arrow hands. M. 39 mm., frosted gilt full plate with fl ared turned pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement with micrometric potence adjustment, three-arm brass balance, fl at balance spring, pierced and chased continental balance cock, polished steel endplate, silver regulator dial. Snuff Box : Drum form, the lid very fi nely painted with an oval scene of a mother and son standing at a velvet-covered table viewing engravings through a camera obscura, landscape background, gold paillon border and translucent Royal blue guilloche ennamel ground, outer paillon border, the sides and base decorated with gold paillons on translucent Royal blue guilloche enamel grounds within white line borders. Dial and movement signed. Snuff box punched with Guidon, Rémond & Compagnie mark.Watch Diam. 48 mm. Box Diam. 54 mm.