View full screen - View 1 of Lot 112. ANTE. MOILLIET & CIE., GENÈVE [Ante. Moilliet & Cie.,日內瓦] | A GOLD ENAMEL AND PEARL-SET QUARTER REPEATING VERGE WATCH  CIRCA 1795, NO. 1179 [黃金畫琺瑯鑲珍珠二問報時懷錶備機軸式擒縱機芯,年份約1795,編號1179].

ANTE. MOILLIET & CIE., GENÈVE [Ante. Moilliet & Cie.,日內瓦] | A GOLD ENAMEL AND PEARL-SET QUARTER REPEATING VERGE WATCH CIRCA 1795, NO. 1179 [黃金畫琺瑯鑲珍珠二問報時懷錶備機軸式擒縱機芯,年份約1795,編號1179]

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June 16, 04:09 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 CHF

Lot Details

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ANTE. MOILLIET & CIE., GENÈVE

[ Ante. Moilliet & Cie.,日內瓦]


A GOLD ENAMEL AND PEARL-SET QUARTER REPEATING VERGE WATCH

CIRCA 1795, NO. 1179

[ 黃金畫琺瑯鑲珍珠二問報時懷錶備機軸式擒縱機芯,年份約1795,編號1179]


Movement: verge escapement, plain balance, decoratively pierced and engraved balance bridge, backplate signed A. Moilliet Cie., Genève, no. 1179,

Dial: white enamel, Arabic numerals, outer Arabic minute ring, gold hands with skeletonised terminals, signed Ante. Moilliet & Cie., à Genève

Case: gold, the back with polychrome enamel painted pastoral scene depicting a shepherd and a shepherdess picking fruit, the foreground with a sheep, a hound, and a cow, against a Swiss mountain scene, opaque white enamel border with gold quatrefoils, pearl-set bezel, case numbered 1179 and with casemaker's mark BP beneath a crown incuse


diameter 47.5mm


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Antoine Moilliet & Cie was active between 1790-1800, see Kathleen Pritchard, Swiss Timepiece Makers 1775-1975, Vol. II, p. M-86.


A similar example by this maker was sold at Replica Shoes 's New York, 27 October 2010, lot 9.