Thematic Auction in Geneva:The Evolut...

Hotel Noga Hilton, Geneva, Nov 16, 2002

LOT 24

Jupiter en Pluie d'Or Jean Mussard, Geneva, circa 1710, movement by George Richards, London, No. 16011.Very fine and very rare 18K gold and enamel watch.

C. Two-body, "bassine", the back very finely painted with Danaé being visited by Jupiter disguised as a shower of golden rain, band painted with a continuous rural landscape and a traveler with his donkey against a river landscape background. D. White enamel, Roman hour chapter, outer minute divisions with five-minute Arabic numerals. Gold "Louis XV" hands. M. 35 mm. (15 1/2'''), full plate, square baluster pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, steel, three-arm balance with flat spring, on-footed cock pierced and engraved in asymmetrical scrolls and foliage with a flower blossom in the center, rack and pinion regulator with a silver plate calibrated from 1 to 6 in Arabic numerals.Signed on the movement, the enameller's signature on the case.Diam. 42 mm.