Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 10, 2013

LOT 23

VACHERON PORTRAIT YELLOW GOLD AND ENAMEL Vacheron, Geneve, No. 4255. Made circa 1890. Very fine and unusual, 18K gold and enamel, hunting cased keyless pendant watch. Accompanied by a key.

C. Four-body, basine, polished, hinged and sprung front cover painted on enamel with a portrait of a lady set with 6 single-cut diamonds and an engraved scroll border , the back cover decorated with a finely painted on enamel musical scene with flowers, hinged engraved cuvette. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track with 5-minute Arabic markers, subsidiary sunk seconds dial. Gold Louis XIV hands. M. 40 mm. 18???, nickel-plated, 15 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel flat balance spring, index regulator. Cuvette signed. DIAM. 37 mm.