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Answers for Your Antique Jewelry
and Timepiece Questions
by Peter J. Theriault, FGA,
GG
(Anonymous E-mail) A. Your pendant watch was manufactured by many Swiss firms, but most watches were fitted in silver cases, making yours, which is fitted with a gold case, more valuable. You were correct about the Fabergé-like enamel. This type of enamel work is called guilloche, whereby the case is machine engraved and then a translucent enamel is applied, thus allowing the intricate machine-engraved design to show through. This provides a most intriguing effect, one of the signature enamel styles of the famous Russian goldsmith. These pendant watches make appearances at auctions and usually sell for $800 to $1200.
(This excerpt taken from
Maine
Antique Digest) |
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