Lot 128

John Kenable, Frith Street, London, 59 mm, 100 g, circa 1806
An ornamental gold and enamel pocket watch with Verre églomisé, studded with half pearls for the Chinese market - "Bouquet of Summer Flowers"
Case: 18k gold, glass, enamel, half pearls. Dial: enamel, centre seconds. Movm.: full plate movement, chain/fusee, cylinder esapement, three-arm steel blance.
The back cover is finely underpainted on glass and shows a beautiful flower arrangement with roses, violets, forget-me-nots and other summer flowers on black ground. The bezels on both sides as well as the enamelled pendant are studded with half pearls.
Verre Églomisé is a French term referring to the process of applying both a design and gilding onto the rear face of glass to produce a mirror finish.
Originally part of the Sandberg Collection, sold at Antiquorum in 2001 (lot 295). Illustrated and described in "The Sandberg Watch Collection" by Terence Camerer-Cuss, Geneva 1998, p. 290-291.