ATTRIBUTED TO PIGUET & MEYLAN
MUSICAL SUMMER BOUQUET ENAMEL AND GOLD
Attributed to Piguet & Meylan, Genève, signed by Charman, London, No. 9076.
Made for the Chinese market, circa 1820.
Very fine and rare, large, musical, 18K gold, painted on enamel and pearl-set
pocket watch playing music on the hour or at will. Accompanied by a the
original Charman fitted box and a winding key.
Four-body, "Empire", reeded band, split pearl-set bezels, pendant and
bow, the back painted on enamel with a bouquet of summer flowers against
an opalescent enamel ground, the scalloped border decorated in pale blue
and white champlevé enamel. Hinged gold cuvette.
White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary
seconds. Gold "spade" hands.
52 mm. gilt, going barrels for the going and musical trains, cylinder
escapement, brass three-arm balance, the balance and the steel escape wheel
jeweled, flat balance spring, index regulator, sur plateau musical movement
with 24 tuned steel teeth playing on both sides of the pinned disc.