Objekt 14
Gold enamel watch
Description
Engraved metal dials, here in gold, are common in this style on early watches with minute hands: outside is the minute indication in fives from 5 to 60 in Arabic numerals and inside is the hour indication from I to XII in Roman numerals. Here, the center of the dial features a depiction of Venus and Cupid in enamel painting, and the back of the case features a "Caritas Romana", also in fine enamel painting.
Object description
Maker: François Mercier (movement), Jean-Pierre Huaud (1655-1723) and Amy Huaud (1657-1724) (case)
Geneva, around 1700
Gold, brass gilded, silver, steel partly blued, enamel, glass
Signatures: François Mercier (movement), Les frères Huaut (case)
Deposit Dr. Eugen Gschwind Foundation, Basel, G. 56
Inv. 1983.1056.