Exceptional horologic works of art

Hotel Noga Hilton, Geneva, Oct 11, 2003

LOT 258

A Flower Isaac Soret et Fils, Geneva, No. 26254, circa 1795. Very fine and rare 18K multicolored gold and painted on enamel pair-cased center seconds quarter-repeating watch with date and ages of the moon.

C. Outer: protective, gilt brass, glazed on the back, bezels covered with red tortoiseshell and riveted with gilt studs. Inner: two-body, ?Louis XVI?, back painted on enamel depicting a gentleman giving a flower to his lady in the countryside, gold paillon frame on white enamel background, translucent imperial blue enamel border decorated with gold paillons forming garlands of flowers, bezels pierced for sound and decorated with applied multicolored gold and champlevé enamel laurel-leaf pattern.D. White enamel, small eccentric Roman chapter set in the lower part with outer minute divisions and gold ?beetle and poker? hands, date subsidiary dial at 10 o'clock, symmetrically to the right ages of the moon dial, central sweep seconds with outermost dot divisions and fifteen-seconds Arabic markers. M. 40.6 mm (18''', hinged, frosted gilt full-plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement brass balance with flat balance spring, continental cock, repeating on bell by depressing the pendant.Signed on dial and movement.Diam. 50 mm.