Lot 84

Aranaga à Bilbao / Roux, Bordier & Comp. à Genève, Movement No. 9109, Case No. 9109, 54 mm, 81 g, circa 1790
A remarkable silver, gold and enamel verge pocket watch with visible paste-set balance - with an original wooden box
Case: silver, gold and enamel, paste stones. Dial: enamel. Movm.: full plate movement, chain/fusee.
The back of this charming pocket watch is decorated with translucent cobalt blue enamel and gold paillon flower garlands over engine-turned pattern. On the right, a lady stands in period dress; the left side shows a painted shed and a tower near a small stream.
Roux, Romand, Bordier & Comp.
The Bordier brothers were associated watchmakers as early as 1794. In 1815, they worked at the Grand Mézel. In 1794, they took Roux and Romand into partnership, establishing the company Bordier, Roux, Romand & Cie. Between 1794 and 1811, they were specialised in automaton repeating watches as well as complicated or skeletonized watches, with perpetual calendar, often decorated with painted enamels, pearls and gemstones.

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