96th Auction
2017/11/18
Lot 129
Guglielmo Meuron à Paris, Case No. 2775 6328, 56 mm, 109 g, circa 1785
A Louis XVI gold enamel pocket watch with cylinder escapement in near mint condition
Case: 18k gold, enamel, paste-set bezels, movement protection cap. Dial: enamel. Movm.: full plate movement, chain/fusee, three-arm brass balance.
An exquisitely ornamented Louis XVI pocket watch. The bezels on the front and the back are decorated with paste stones. The back shows a translucent cobalt blue enamel medallion with a polychrome painting of a period pastroral scene, paillon decoration and paste stones.
Tardy and Loomes state that the French maker Meuron worked in Paris in the late 18th and early 19th century; he produced a number of clocks for Abraham-Louis Breguet, some of them carriage clocks.
A Louis XVI gold enamel pocket watch with cylinder escapement in near mint condition
Case: 18k gold, enamel, paste-set bezels, movement protection cap. Dial: enamel. Movm.: full plate movement, chain/fusee, three-arm brass balance.
An exquisitely ornamented Louis XVI pocket watch. The bezels on the front and the back are decorated with paste stones. The back shows a translucent cobalt blue enamel medallion with a polychrome painting of a period pastroral scene, paillon decoration and paste stones.
Tardy and Loomes state that the French maker Meuron worked in Paris in the late 18th and early 19th century; he produced a number of clocks for Abraham-Louis Breguet, some of them carriage clocks.
Sold
estimated
9.500—12.000 €
Price realized
11.800 €