97th Auction

2018/5/12

Lot 513

Edmond Veyret, Ecole Nationale d'Horlogerie Cluses Haute-Savoie, Case No. 6514, 53 mm, 117 g, circa 1910
A complex French graduation piece - masterpiece - in a niello silver case with full calendar and ornamental niello silver chatelaine with pendant. Inside the cover a picture can be inserted behind a glass panel; the original photo is still in place here.
Case: Open-face Niello silver case, applied pink gold monogram "EV", lavish floral pattern. Dial: enamel, Arabic hours, auxiliary seconds, three subsidiary chapter dials for indications of the date, months and weekdays, cobalt blue enamelled golden moon phase disc with gold moon and stars, gold Louis XV hands. Movm.: bridge movement, gilt, wolfteeth winding wheels, lever escapement, gold screw compensation balance, blued balance spring, counterpoised lever.
French watchmaker Edmond Veyret was born in 1890 in Vinay. He attended the watch- and clockmaking school Ecole Nationale d'Horlogerie Cluses Haute-Savoie and trained as a maker of timepieces. Edmond Veyret died in 1954 in Lyon.
Source: https://watch-wiki.org/index.php?title=Veyret,_Edmond, as of 03/20/2018
The former royal (later national watch- and clockmaking school today calls itself Charles Poncet School and was founded in 1848 to advance and drive the economic development in the Arve Valley, the town of Cluses and not least in the whole Haute-Savoie region. The original royal school was modeled on the school in Geneva, whose first director was French maker Achille Benoit.

Sold

estimated
4.0006.000 €
Price realized
4.300 €