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Description

Antique Aurea 1900s Solid 18k Gold Manual Wind Pocket Dial Movement high-grade (see photos); In working condition, recently serviced (consider it as a vintage timepiece). Seconds (0-60) sub-dial. The great movement is in very good visual condition, very beautiful and sophisticated manufacturing. See photos for details. Case with 2 covers, signed 18k, both numbered. Dust Cover signed: “Grand Diplome D´honneur – Liege 1905 – AUREA – (9 stamped medals) – Geneve 1896” Guilloche decoration Caseback. Few marks, but general good condition. Dial in good condition without damages. Nice decorated golden hands. Roman numerals, decorated golden dots marks for minutes (larger dots for hours). Weight: 26,5 g Width without bow: 33,5 mm Thickness: 11 mm Provenance: Same family, belonged to the father of the last owner (declared receipt from him included). It comes with vintage box (not signed). See photos for more details.

Basic Info
Listing number
Reference Number	18k Gold Pocket Watch
Brand	Aurea
Case material	Solid Gold 18k
Year of production	1900s
Condition	Good (Light signs of wear or scratches)
Scope of delivery	vintage box, owner´s receipt
Gender	Men's watch/Unisex
Location	Brazil, São Paulo
Case
Case material	Silver
Case diameter	33.5 mm
Bezel material	18k Gold
Dial	White Enamel
Dial numerals	Roman numerals and golden dots

 

Others

Guilloché and flower decoration Caseback. Markers golden dots on dial.

 

Additional Information:

Aurea means “golden” in Latin. Golden means made of, or relating to gold. 

Aurea was sometimes used in the great relevant UK market for Omega watches.

Guilloche is a decorative technique in which a very precise, intricate and repetitive pattern is mechanically engraved into an underlying material via engine turning, which uses a machine of the same name, also called a rose engine lathe. This mechanical technique improved on more time-consuming designs achieved by hand and allowed for greater delicacy, precision, and closeness of line, as well as greater speed.

The term guilloche is also used more generally for repetitive architectural patterns of intersecting or overlapping spirals or other shapes, as used in the Ancient Near East, classical Greece and Rome and neo-classical architecture, and Early Medieval interlace decoration in Anglo-Saxon art and elsewhere. Medieval Cosmatesque stone inlay designs with two ribbons winding around a series of regular central points are very often called guilloche. These central points are often blank, but may contain a figure, such as a rose. These senses are a back-formation from the engraving guilloché, so called because the architectural motifs resemble the designs produced by later guilloché techniques.

The name, as guilloché, is French, dating back at least to the 1770s, and is often said to be called after a French engineer named Guillot, who invented a tool or turning machine.