Baltazar ' Quarter Repeating Montre a Portrait Charles Baltazar à Paris, No. 980. Made circa 1775. Fine and rare, quarter-repeating à toc, 18K two-color gold pocket watch set with a painted on ivory portrait miniature of a lady. To be sold without reserve | Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces | Geneva, 27th March 2011
Baltazar ? Quarter Repeating Montre a Portrait Charles Baltazar à Paris, No. 980. Made circa 1775. Fine and rare, quarter-repeating à toc, 18K two-color gold pocket watch set with a painted on ivory portrait miniature of a lady. To be sold without reserve CHF 2,000 - 4,000 USD 2,000 - 4,000 / EUR 1,500 - 3,000Sold: CHF 6,250 C. Two-body, "Louis XVI", the bezel decorated with two-color gold fruiting vines, the back set with a painted on ivory portrait miniature of a lady within a glazed compartment. D. White enamel with Arabic numerals, outer dot minute divisions and Arabic 15-minute numerals, winding aperture at 2. Gold sun hands. M. 35 mm., gilt full plate, turned pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, three-arm brass balance, flat balance spring, continental balance cock, silver regulation dial, repeating with two hammers on blocks in the case activated by depressing the pendant. Movement signed. Diam. 43 mm.Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces
Geneva, Mar 27, 2011
LOT 317 Baltazar ? Quarter Repeating Montre a Portrait Charles Baltazar à Paris, No. 980. Made circa 1775. Fine and rare, quarter-repeating à toc, 18K two-color gold pocket watch set with a painted on ivory portrait miniature of a lady. To be sold without reserve
CHF 2,000 - 4,000 USD 2,000 - 4,000 / EUR 1,500 - 3,000
Sold: CHF 6,250
C. Two-body, "Louis XVI", the bezel decorated with two-color gold fruiting vines, the back set with a painted on ivory portrait miniature of a lady within a glazed compartment. D. White enamel with Arabic numerals, outer dot minute divisions and Arabic 15-minute numerals, winding aperture at 2. Gold sun hands. M. 35 mm., gilt full plate, turned pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, three-arm brass balance, flat balance spring, continental balance cock, silver regulation dial, repeating with two hammers on blocks in the case activated by depressing the pendant. Movement signed. Diam. 43 mm.
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