EDOUARD JUVET TITUS AND BERENICE GOLD
Edouard Juvet, "Titus & Berenice", Fleurier. Made for the Chinese market, No. 69, circa 1860.
Fine and rare, center-seconds, gold, champlevé and painted on enamel pocket watch with
duplex escapement.
Two-body, Empire, the bezel decorated with translucent red enamel and white enamel
flower heads with blue centers, intersected by blue rui heads, pendant and bow decorated
with blue and white champlevé enamel, the back with a painted on enamel panel depicting
Titus and Berenice in a garden by an altar and urn garlanded with roses, translucent red
guilloche enamel ground, the border decorated to match the bezel. Hinged gold cuvette
with engraved decoration.
White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute and seconds divisions and
Arabic 15-minute numerals. Gilt ovoid hands.
Gilded brass, engraved with flowers and foliage, standing barrel, five-arm polished
steel balance, jewelled duplex escapement, flat balance spring, index regulator.
Movement signed.