The Longitude at the Eve of the Third...

Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 23, 1999

LOT 395

Vienna, circa 1830.Very fine 18K gold and enamel, pearl-set pendant watch designed as a lyre, with visible balance, suspended from an matching pin by a matching chain.

C. Double body, designed as a lyre, the scarlet sound board flanked by blue enamel branches with paillonné decoration, the sound hole with split-pearl set bezel reveals the visible balance cock, gold wire strings. Scarlet flinqué enamelled branches on the back, decorated en suite, the centre with a painted score and a lyre over a blue ground. D. White enamel with Roman numerals. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. Hinged gilt brass full plate with conical pillars, fusee with chain, plain brass three-am balance, flat balance spring, gilt brass continental cock.Dim. 105 x 32 mm., including the chain and the pin.