Important Watches, Wristwatches and C...

Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 24, 1999

LOT 578

David Gide, Geneva, No. 590, circa 1810. Fine and rare pearl-set gold and enamel form watch designed as a mandolin with visible balance.

C. Double body, the yellow enamelled back decorated with a champleve enamel pans, yellow enamelled sound board with leaf decoration, pearl-set on the border and to the sound hole, black enamelled key board and head. D. White enamel with Breguet numerals, winding aperture at 2 o'clock. Gold "spade" hands. M. Gilt brass full plate with conical pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement, plain brass threearm balance with flat spring and regulator. Continental gilt brass cock. Signed on the back plate. Dim. 64 x 26 mm.