113rd Auction
2025/11/8
Lot 157
Antoine Moilliet & Cie.
A lady's fine, small and very rare Geneva gold enamel pocket watch with visible, diamond-set balance, studded with half-pearls
Sold
estimated
3.500—5.000 €
Price realized
5.700 €
specific features
Case
18 K gold and opaque enamel, half-pearl set bezels.
Dial
Opaque blue and black enamel, engraved gold pattern, eccentric enamel dial with Arabic numerals, eccentric window for visible, four-arm balance with diamond ring on a polished steel disc.
Movement
Miniature full plate movement, cylinder escapement.
Case no.16986
Diam.30 mm
Circa1800
Ctry.Switzerland
Wt.20 g
The gold case is decorated on both sides with a border of half pearls. The back displays engraved blossoms and a black-enamel vase set against a light-blue ground. The dial is similarly styled, adorned with floral scrolls, a torch and quiver, as well as a pair of doves on light-blue and black ground. At "12" sits the diamond-set balance before a mirror-polished backdrop, while the delicate enamel dial is positioned at "6".
Antoine Moilliet & Cie. worked in Geneva between 1790-1810. He was specialized in making of enamel and fob watches.