Lot 540

Rossel-Bautte & Cie. à Genève, Case No. 76704, 36 mm, 38 g, circa 1855
An attractive ensemble, consisting of a diamond-set gold enamel pendant watch with corresponding gold enamel watch chain and winding key, studded with diamonds
Case: 18k gold, enamel, rose-cut diamonds. Dial: enamel. Movm.: bridge movement, keywind, cylinder escapement, brass ring balance.
The case is decorated with translucent cobalt blue enamel on engine-turned ground and an engraved flower sprig set with rose-cut diamonds. The waved rim is decorated with engraved gold volutes.
Jean-Francois Bautte (1772-1837) was the most distinguished watchmaker and retailer in Geneva of his time. Shortly after his death in 1837, Bautte’s son Jacques Bautte and son-in-law Jean-Samuel Rossel formed the company Jean-François Bautte & Cie., retailer of timepieces and jewellery. From 1855 on the company traded as Rossel-Bautte & Cie., and from 1860 on as Rossel & Fils. In 1906 the company was taken over by Constant Girard-Gallet, the owner of Swiss watch manufacturer Girard-Perregaux in La Chaux-de-Fonds. The Girard-Perregaux Museum in La Chaux-de-Fonds owns several creations from the house of Bautte.

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