Time in paradise
This early18th-century English pocket watch is an automaton piece made in London by Isord with a polychrome scene of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden surrounded by an astonishing automaton snake.
A fine selection of gousset watches will be on display at Ivoire – Collet et Luneau OVVin Reimson Sunday February 22. One of the highlights is an English pocket watch from the early 18th century, richly decorated in engraved and chased rose gold with rocaille motifs, an automaton model made in London by Isord (diam. 47 mm – €3 ,000/6 ,000 ). The back of the skeleton case is adorned with a polychrome scene painted on enamel with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, an astonishing painted metal snake automaton moving around them as the watch ticks (Messrs. Emeric and Stephen Portier). A similar model is in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
