108th Auction
2023/5/20
Lot 422
Esquivillon Frères & DeChoudens
A collection of 2 verge pocket watches
A decorative Geneva gold enamel pair-cased verge pocket watch, set with paste-stones and ornamented with an enamel portrait
A decorative Geneva gold enamel pair-cased verge pocket watch, set with paste-stones and ornamented with an enamel portrait
Sold
estimated
2.200—3.500 €
Price realized
3.000 €
specific features
Case
Outer case - 18 K gold, two-tone, polychrome enamel, paste-stones. Inner case - 18 K gold, smooth, case maker's punch mark "NC".
Dial
Enamel.
Movement
Full plate movement, chain/fusee, three-arm brass balance.
Case no.53504
Diam.38 mm
Circa1780
Ctry.Switzerland
Wt.52 g
The back of the case is decorated with an oval polychrome painted enamel portrait of a young lady in contemporary dress, surrounded by a frame of paste-stones and a translucent cobalt blue enamel rim with a gold paillon border over a guilloché ground; the bezel on the front is similary decorated with a border of paste-stones.
Geneva watchmaker Jacques Dechoudens (1728-1801) and brothers Joseph Esquivillon (1714-1798), Jean François Esquivillon (1733-1813) and Gédéon-François Esquivillon (1717-1799) founded a workshop which produced high quality verge pocket watches.