Important Watches, Wristwatches and C...

Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 18, 1998

LOT 53

Vienna, Austria, circa 1850 Fine gold and enamel watch designed as a lyre with snatching brooch.

C. Two-part, the back decorated with engraved foliage and enamelled musical score on a scarlet flinque ground within pellet border, the sound board with enamelled flowers on an blue/grey flinque ground with diamond chip surround to the sound hole, the neck en suite with silver wire strings. Matching brooch designed as a crown. D. White enamel with Arabic numerals. Blued-steel hands. M. Hinged gilt-brass full plate, fusee with chain, verge escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, flat spring and regulator. Continental cock. Dims. 60 x 29 mm.