Gold Pocket Watch with a Portrait Miniature of General George Washington
Probably French
Circa 1820
Gold, enamel, steel
Replaced glass bezel
2” diameter
An 18K gold watch with an enamel face, Arabic numerals and a blue enamel and gilt border. The stem also has polychrome enameling. Makers mark for Bordeaux, circa 1819 but has yet to be identified. The reverse has a fine portrait of George Washington in his General’s uniform based on an 1818 portrait by Rembrandt Peale for Colonel Tilghman, now at Morristown National Historic Park. Key wound fusee movement.
Circa 1820
Gold, enamel, steel
Replaced glass bezel
2” diameter
An 18K gold watch with an enamel face, Arabic numerals and a blue enamel and gilt border. The stem also has polychrome enameling. Makers mark for Bordeaux, circa 1819 but has yet to be identified. The reverse has a fine portrait of George Washington in his General’s uniform based on an 1818 portrait by Rembrandt Peale for Colonel Tilghman, now at Morristown National Historic Park. Key wound fusee movement.