97th Auction

2018/5/12

Lot 214

Swiss, 56 mm, 156 g, circa 1805
A quarter repeating pocket watch with two jacquemarts "à trois couleur" in an ornamental niello silver case with grotesques
Case: niello silver. Dial: enamel, three-colour gold. Movm.: full plate movement, keywind, 2 hammers / 2 gongs, three-arm brass balance.
The two Jacquemarts, a man and a woman in three-colour gold period garments on opaque cobalt blue enamel ground, strike their hammers on two large bells in the top half of the dial. Under the dial sits a monkey in a costume.The small white enamel hour dial with Arabic numerals sits between the two figures.

Sold

estimated
3.6005.000 €
Price realized
4.100 €