FRERES ESQUIVILLON & DECHOUDENS. A RARE GOLD, ENAMEL, PEARL AND TURQUOISE-SET HUNTER CASE KEYWOUND VERGE WATCH
SIGNED FRES ESQUILLON & DE CHOUDENS, NO. 890'817, CIRCA 1780
Keywound verge movement, chain fusée, white enamel dial, Arabic numerals, circular case, the front lid with a hexagonal cartouche containing a polychrome painted enamel lakeside scene with a sailing vessel, surrounded by a band of pearls and translucent blue enamel, the engraved gold ground with raised foliate scrolls set with turquoise and pearls, the reverse with a polychrome painted enamel scene of a cherub painting upon a canvas within a landscape, the painted cartouche surrounded by a row of undulating pearls and a band of translucent blue enamel, the gold ground with raised foliate scrolls set with turquoise, all within pearl-set bezels, band decorated with blue enamel over engine-turned ground, movement signed and numbered, case numbered, dial signed
33.5 mm. diam.
FRERES ESQUIVILLON & DECHOUDENS. A RARE GOLD, ENAMEL, PEARL AND TURQUOISE-SET HUNTER CASE KEYWOUND VERGE WATCH
SIGNED FRES ESQUILLON & DE CHOUDENS, NO. 890'817, CIRCA 1780
Keywound verge movement, chain fusée, white enamel dial, Arabic numerals, circular case, the front lid with a hexagonal cartouche containing a polychrome painted enamel lakeside scene with a sailing vessel, surrounded by a band of pearls and translucent blue enamel, the engraved gold ground with raised foliate scrolls set with turquoise and pearls, the reverse with a polychrome painted enamel scene of a cherub painting upon a canvas within a landscape, the painted cartouche surrounded by a row of undulating pearls and a band of translucent blue enamel, the gold ground with raised foliate scrolls set with turquoise, all within pearl-set bezels, band decorated with blue enamel over engine-turned ground, movement signed and numbered, case numbered, dial signed
33.5 mm. diam.
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