empressissi™ is pleased to offer this all original, large and elegant hand chased decorated FONTAINMELON Swiss hunter style pocket watch in solid 14K gold case.
This watch is part of a large and mostly impressive pocket watch collection of an IAF pilot veteran that we are pleased to offer for sale in our website. An earlier portion of this collection was serviced by us in 2016 and auctioned at Christie's Geneve. We are now pleased to offer the substantial second part of this pocket watch collection for sale; these include repeater pocket watches, chronographs, Hunter-cases (Savonettes) and open faces antique pocket watches, most complex and interesting antique Swiss pocket watches, as well as American pocket watches of the finest standards.
The watch houses an early FHF-1 ebauche caliber in gilt finish and is very well preserved. It is a crown wind/lever set caliber, in overall excellent condition, running strong and keeping accurate time with sub seconds on 15 jewels. The movement is cased in a fully hallmarked and original 14K all solid gold case with amazing hand chased decorations. It has good bow, onion crown and all the hinges are functional and tight , with net gold weight of 22 grams.
The dial is a factory original white enamel with sunken sub seconds in Roman numerals design, very elegant with original Louis XIV set of hands.
This fantastic Swiss pocket watch measures 48,5mm side to side (excluding crown).
Stock item: AZ92
