Important Collector's Wristwatches,Po...

Grand Havana Room, Mar 24, 2004

LOT 208

?The Chronos Cameo?Reynaud & Glatou, Genève, No. 4005. Produced circa 1880.Very fine and rare, keyless, 18K gold and sardonyx cameo pendant watch.

C. four-body, ?bassine et filets?, solid, case back a cameo finely carved from a single piece of sardonyx with white Chronos head encircled by dark Zodiac signs, gold hinged cuvette. D. white enamel with Roman numerals, outer minute divisions with five-minute red Arabic markers. Gold ?Louis XV? hands. M. 28 mm, frosted gilt, bar caliber, cylinder escapement, three-arm gilt balance, flat balance spring, wolf-tooth winding wheels.Dial and cuvette signed. Diam. 35 mm.