Description
The case of the watch is enameled and painted with a scene of the Greek hero Perseus rescuing the beautiful maiden Andromeda, who was about to be sacrificed by her father to a sea monster.
Provenance
Anatole Demidoff, Prince of San Donato (1812-1870); Tiffany and Company, New York, prior to 1893 [mode of acquisition unknown] [on 1893 list, no. 73]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Inscriptions
[Signature] On movement: Baillon à Paris
