Lot 491

Baudin Frères, Genève, Movement No. 15994, Case No. 15994, 46 mm, 84 g, circa 1845
A Gentleman's Geneva pocket watch with exquisite miniature enamel portrait of King Frederick William IV of Prussia in the uniform of a major general of the 1st Foot Guard Regiment. The miniature is based on a painting that is today owned by the German Historical Museum in Berlin. The painting dating from 1845 is attributed to Joseph Karl Stieler and is almost identical to this enamel miniature (see https://www.dhm.de/lemo/bestand/objekt/koenig-friedrich-wilhelm-iv-um-1845.html)
Case: 18k gold. Dial: enamel. Movm.: bridge movement, screw compensation balance, early stem-winding system.
Frederick William IV (* October 15, 1795 in Berlin; † January 2, 1861 in Potsdam) was King of Prussia from July 7, 1840 to January 2, 1861; he was a descendant of the Hohenzollern dynasty. He was referred to as the "romanticist on the throne" who felt inspired by the ideals of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. When he was offered the German crown during the revolution of 1848 by the Frankfurt Parliament, Frederick William refused to accept it.
Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Wilhelm_IV

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