EDWARD PRIOR, ENGLAND, PAINTED ON ENAMEL PAIR CASE MADE FOR THE TURKISH MARKET, 18K YELLOW GOLD
A fine and elegant, 18k yellow gold and enamel, manual wind , scallop-edges case, the inner case finely painted on enamel with a scene of a galleon in a sea port against an opalescent sky over a sunray engine turning, outer case decorated with polychrome champlevé enamel around the glazed aperture.
Grading System: AAA
CHF 10,000 - 15,000
HKD 87,000 - 130,000
USD 11,100 - 16,600
EUR 10,200 - 15,300
Brand Edward Prior, England
Year Circa 1820
Movement No. 45423
Case No. 41801
Diameter 46 mm.
Caliber 12''', Hinged, gilt brass full plate, unusual lyre-shaped pillars, fusee and chain, pinions, verge escapement.
Signature Dial and movement
An extremely fine and rare, 18k gold and painting on enamel, manual wind manual wind oval shaped with scallop edge (20 lobes) snuff box, the cover, band and base with pink and turquoise radial panels painted with flowers and musical instruments, the inside lid centred with musical trophies painted over a pink flinqué ground, the front and back centered with painted on enamel central decoration depicting ships in a calm harbor with a citadel in the background. Plain circular inner case, with bezel and rim decorated in polychrome champlevé enamel, the back centered with a painted polychrome enamel representing a ship leaving port. Surrounded polychrome enamel outer case decorated with a finely painted polychrome enamel scene representing a ship in the port, banner with pink and turquoise radial panels painted with flowers and musical instruments. Gold dial with Turkish numerals cartouches.
Grading System: 
CHF 35,000 - 55,000
HKD 304,000 - 478,000
USD 38,700 - 61,000
EUR 35,700 - 57,000
Brand Unsigned, Switzerland / Geneva
Model made for the Turkish Market
Year Circa 1830
Diameter 50 mm. (pocket watch)
Length 84
Height 26
Width 55
Caliber 15''', fusee and chain, verge escapement
Signature The gold box stamped
Sold: CHF 43,750
A very fine and rare, 18k gold, manual wind open-face, key-winding pocket watch, quarter repeater on two steel gongs (activated by depressing the pendant), musical movement playing on the hour or at will. Decorated with polychrome champlevé enamel and a central painted bouquet of flowers on a blue background, lever at 1 o'clock for the melody silence.
Grading System: AAA
CHF 20,000 - 3,000
HKD 174,000 - 26,000
USD 22,200 - 3,400
EUR 20,400 - 3,100
Brand Alliez Bachelard & Terond Fils, Switzerland / Geneva
Year Circa 1835
Diameter 57 mm.
Caliber 22''', matte gilt, half-plate, spring barrel for the going train, cylinder escapement, three-arm balance, flat balance spring, polished steel endpiece, index regulator, repeating on blued steel gongs activated by depressing the pendant, polished steel repeating work on the backplate, large barrel for the musical train with fi nely foliate engraved upper surface, polished steel stopwork, sur-plateau brass musical disc pinned on both sides, 22 individual tuned steel teeth playing on both sides of the disc
Signature Case
A fine, 18k yellow gold and enamel, manual wind open face pocket watch decorated with black champlevé enamel military trophy incorporating Ottoman flags.
Grading System: AA
CHF 4,000 - 6,000
HKD 34,700 - 52,000
USD 4,500 - 6,700
EUR 4,100 - 6,200
Brand Basile Charles Le Roy, France
Model made for the Turkish Market
Year Circa 1820
Case No. 4435
Diameter 43 mm.
Caliber 16’’’, full plate, gilded brass, with fusee and chain, verge escapement, monometallic balance (gilded brass) and blued steel flat hairspring, pierced and engraved gilded continental cock.
Signature Dial and case
Sold: CHF 5,625
LEPINE, SWITZERLAND, CARTOGRAPHIC DECOR, DIGITAL JUMP-HOURS, 18K YELLOW GOLD
A very fine and unusual, 18k gold and enamel, manual wind open face, digital jump-hours, engraved gold and champlevé black enamel bezels, the back decorated with a finely engraved map of southern Italy with black detailing, overlaid with translucent blue enamel.
Grading System: AAA
CHF 10,000 - 20,000
HKD 87,000 - 174,000
USD 11,100 - 22,200
EUR 10,200 - 20,400
Brand Lepine, Switzerland
Model cartographic decor
Year Circa 1810
Case No. 32
Diameter 54 mm.
Caliber 21''', Lepine caliber, cylinder escapement with standing barrel.
Signature Case
Sold: CHF 11,250
UNSIGNED, SWITZERLAND, ENAMEL COMPASS MADE FOR THE TURKISH MARKET, 18K YELLOW GOLD
A very fine and unusual, 18k gold and enamel open face compass with enamel back decorated with painted on enamel flowers on a light green ground, pendant and bow decorated with blue and black champlevé enamel. White enamel dial with points of the compass in Turkish characters, blued and polished steel needle.
Grading System: AA
CHF 4,000 - 8,000
HKD 34,700 - 70,000
USD 4,500 - 8,900
EUR 4,100 - 8,200
Brand Unsigned, Switzerland
Year Circa 1820
Diameter 41 mm.
GREGSON, FRANCE, FINELY PAINTED ENAMEL PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG LADY, 18K YELLOW GOLD
An elegant, decorative, 18k gold and enamel with half pearls, manual wind open face pocket watch with finely painted enamel portrait of a young lady.
Grading System: AA
CHF 6,000 - 10,000
HKD 52,000 - 87,000
USD 6,700 - 11,100
EUR 6,200 - 10,200
Brand Gregson, France
Year Circa 1790
Movement No. 9135
Diameter 53 mm.
Caliber 19''', hinged, gilt brass full plate with separate plate for the barrel and fusee with chain, verge escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring, gilt brass balance clock pierced and engraved.
Signature Movement
An extremely fine and rare, large, 18k gold and painting on enamel, manual wind egg-shaped case, the front of honey translucent enamel decorated in a stripped pattern with a paillonné foliage decoration on the border, the back enamelled with a very fine painted scene of a maiden with her servant, dancing and playing the Bacchante in a park while her child plays the flute, paillonné foliate frame and outer translucent blue enamel over engine-turning.
Grading System:
CHF 50,000 - 100,000
HKD 434,000 - 870,000
USD 56,000 - 112,000
EUR 51,000 - 102,000
Brand Attributed to Jaquet-Droz, Switzerland
Year Circa 1780
Movement No. 889
Length 90
Width 52
Caliber oval-shaped, 64 x 44 mm., gilt brass, Chinese caliber, fully engraved with stylized foliage, standing barrel, virgule escapement, three-arm brass balance with flat balance spring.
A very fine and very rare, gilt brass open-face, key-winding, round-shaped, pair of matching mirror-image large pocket watches, with centre-seconds, made for the Chinese market. Polychrome paintings on enamel attributed to Louis Dufaux Genevan workshop, showing each a tracery of multicoloured summer flowers and leaves on an azure blue backgrounds; bezels, pendants and bows set with half-pearls. Retailed by Hirsbrunner & Co in Shanghai.
Grading System:
CHF 60,000 - 100,000
HKD 520,000 - 870,000
USD 67,000 - 112,000
EUR 62,000 - 102,000
Brand Bovet Fleurier , Switzerland / Geneva
Year Circa 1850-1860
Case No. 3 and 4
Diameter 63 mm.
Caliber each, 24’’’, 10 jewels, glazed dust covers, gilded brass, engraved Chinese-style, going barrels, duplex escapements, monometallic balances (polished steel) with blued-steel wings balance and blued steel flat hairsprings, polished steel index-regulators.
Signature Movement
Accessories Original box signed by Hirsbrunner & Co in Shanghai and enamel key
Sold: CHF 77,500
UNSIGNED, SWITZERLAND, SMALL POCKET WATCH MADE FOR THE CHINESE MARKET, 18K YELLOW GOLD
A very fine, 18k gold and enamel, manual wind and painted, pearl-set pendant watch.
Grading System: AA
CHF 1,200 - 2,200
HKD 10,400 - 19,100
USD 1,350 - 2,500
EUR 1,250 - 2,300
Brand Unsigned, Switzerland
Year Circa 1850
Diameter 30 mm.
Caliber 10''',brass full plate caliber, verge escapement, three-arm gilt balance with flat balance spring.
Sold: CHF 2,750
A fine, silver gilt, manual wind open face pocket watch, made for the Chinese market.
Grading System: AA
CHF 2,000 - 4,000
HKD 17,400 - 34,700
USD 2,300 - 4,500
EUR 2,100 - 4,100
Brand Chinese signature, Switzerland
Year Circa 1860
Diameter 40 mm.
Caliber 15''', gilt brass, entirely engraved Chinese bridge calibre, 15 jewels, standing barrel, lever escapement, plain gilt three-arm balance, flat balance spring.
Signature Movement and case
Sold: CHF 2,500
A very fine, unusual and heavy, 18k yellow gold, manual wind hunting cased keyless pocket watch, the cover centrally set with a translucent blue enamel crescent moon over engine-turning heightened with diamonds, case back similarly decorated and centred with a stylised flower heightened with enamel. Dial with Urdu numerals, two subsidiary dials for constant seconds and independent jumping seconds.
Grading System: AAA
CHF 5,000 - 10,000
HKD 43,300 - 87,000
USD 5,600 - 11,100
EUR 5,100 - 10,200
Brand P.Orr & Sons, England
Model made for the Indian market
Year Circa 1875
Movement No. 2981
Case No. 19175
Diameter 54 mm.
Caliber 20''', 23 jewels, gilded three-quarter plate, lever escapement, bi-metallic compensation balance, decoratively engraved balance cock.
Signature Movement, maker mark JAD
Sold: CHF 5,625
An important and very fine 18k gold, enamel and hardstone, manual wind Octagonal, polished frame, inset with 31 panels of cornelian and mass agate, back centered with a large panel of mass agate within split-pearl border, scarlet white and blue champleve enamelled pendant, bow and button finial. White enamel dial with Roman numerals, minute marks. Gold Breguet "pointes évidées" hands with counterpoised center seconds.
Grading System:
CHF 60,000 - 100,000
HKD 520,000 - 870,000
USD 67,000 - 112,000
EUR 62,000 - 102,000
Brand Ilbery London, Switzerland
Model "MOSS-AGATE AND CARNELIAN DÉCOR''
Year Circa 1790
Movement No. 6116
Length 110
Width 65
Caliber 18''', gilt brass, fully engraved, Chinese caliber, free standing barrel with stop-work. Duplex escapement, plain polished steel five armed balance, flat balance spring and diamond end stone.
Signature Movement
JUST & SON, SWITZERLAND, MADE FOR THE CHINESE MARKET, DUPLEX ESCAPEMENT, 18K YELLOW GOLD
An extremely fine, rare and decorative 18k gold, manual wind center seconds open face, adorned with a bezel, rim, pendant, and bow embellished with lustrous pearls. The band features a captivating design of alternating black and white champlevé enamel. The reverse side is adorned with a vibrant polychrome enamel bouquet of flowers, accentuated by two courting doves. This exquisite timepiece is crafted using a combination of two distinct enamel techniques: champlevé and painted enamel.
Grading System:
CHF 30,000 - 50,000
HKD 260,000 - 434,000
USD 33,200 - 56,000
EUR 30,600 - 51,000
Brand Just & Son, Switzerland
Model made for the Chinese market
Year Circa 1840
Movement No. 3332
Diameter 55 mm.
Caliber 20''' Chinese calibre finely chased and engraved entirely floral and scroll decorated gilt-finished movement, free standing barrel, ruby duplex escapement with ruby rest insert and steel impulse pallet, engraved floral and scroll decorated
Signature Movement and case numbered
Sold: CHF 40,000
A very fine and rare 18k gold and enamel, manual wind openface quarter repeating pair case keywound cylinder cabriolet watch, made for the Turkish market. Outer double body, solid, the bezels with foliage decoration against a red flinqué enamel ground, the back and front panels decorated with very finely painted polychrome enamel scenes depicting fantasy harbor views in the Ottoman Empire, the pastel-colored sky with translucent enamel Sunray effect over engine-turned background, quarter repeating pull-twist push-piece in the pendant, gold cuvette.
Grading System:
CHF 35,000 - 55,000
HKD 304,000 - 478,000
USD 38,700 - 61,000
EUR 35,700 - 57,000
Brand Breguet retailed by Le Roy
Model made for the Turkish Market
Year Circa 1815
Movement No. 3315
Case No. L 5021
Diameter 53 mm.
Caliber 18''', gilt brass bridges, 7 jewels, free-standing barrel with Breguet continuous stop-work, ruby cylinder escapement, top pivot with a pare-chute, cut-bimetallic compensation regulator, repeating on two gongs with two hammers activated by pull-and-twist piston in the pendant
Signature Dial, case and movement Le Roy (Le Roy Élève de Breguet) dial signed on the reversed by Lucard
BREGUET, QUARTER REPEATER SOLD TO MME JANSSENS, 18K YELLOW GOLD
Grading System: AAA
CHF 15,000 - 25,000
HKD 130,000 - 218,000
USD 16,600 - 27,700
EUR 15,300 - 25,500
Brand Breguet
Year Sold the 30 September 1836 for 1’600 FF
Movement No. 155
Case No. 96
Diameter 50 mm.
Caliber 18’’’, frosted gilt, standing barrel, ruby cylinder escapement, three-arm gold balance, blued steel flat balance spring, pare-chute suspension, temperature compensation curb, index regulator, repeating with two hammers on two gongs activated by a pull-and- twist piston in the band.
Signature Dial, case and movement
Sold: CHF 15,000
A very fine and very important 18k yellow gold, manual wind hunting-cased, double-train, keyless astronomical independent dead center-seconds minute-repeating watch with perpetual calendar and phases of the moon.
Grading System:
CHF 35,000 - 55,000
HKD 304,000 - 478,000
USD 38,700 - 61,000
EUR 35,700 - 57,000
Brand Louis Audemars, Switzerland
Year Made in 1876
Case No. 54390
Diameter 56 mm.
Caliber 20''', frosted gilt brass, 45 jewels, straight-line calibrated lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with blued steel Breguet balancepring, tandem winding, pin-set, repeating on gongs through activating slide in the band.
Signature on the cuvette by Le Roy, punched with Audemars trademark inside back cover.
A very fine and rare, 18k gold, manual wind large open face pocket watch with Roman numerals.
Grading System: AAA
CHF 6,000 - 10,000
HKD 52,000 - 87,000
USD 6,700 - 11,100
EUR 6,200 - 10,200
Brand Patek Philippe, Switzerland
Model CHRONOMETRO GONDOLO
Year Circa 1915
Movement No. 180256
Case No. 400116
Diameter 56 mm.
Caliber 22’’’ gilded brass, with going barrel, train of gold wheels, straight-line equilibrated lever escapement, à moustaches, compensated balance with gold poising screws and blued steel hairspring with terminal curve, patented index regulator with swan-neck spring and micrometric screw
Signature Dial, case and movement
Accessories Fitted box and original certificate
Sold: CHF 6,875
Grading System: AAA
CHF 6,000 - 10,000
HKD 52,000 - 87,000
USD 6,700 - 11,100
EUR 6,200 - 10,200
Brand Patek Philippe, Switzerland
Model CHRONOMETRO GONDOLO
Year Sold in July 1926
Movement No. 195378
Case No. 602406
Diameter 49 mm.
Caliber 19"'. gilt brass, wolf's tooth winding, cut bimetallic compensation balance,straight-line moustache lever escapement, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator
Signature Dial, case and movement
Accessories Original box, certificate and invoice
Sold: CHF 6,250
PATEK PHILIPPE, SWITZERLAND, FIVE-MINUTE-REPEATER & CHRONOGRAPH, 18K PINK GOLD
A very fine and rare, 18k rose gold, manual wind keyless, open face, five minute repeating, pocket watch with chronograph activated by the crown with safety bolt locking the chronograph’s functions (slide at 11 o’clock).
Grading System: AAA
CHF 12,000 - 18,000
HKD 104,000 - 156,000
USD 13,300 - 19,900
EUR 12,300 - 18,400
Brand Patek Philippe, Switzerland
Year Circa 1890
Movement No. 80355
Case No. 200183
Diameter 52 mm.
Caliber 18''', nickel plated, fausses côtes decoration, 32 jewels, straight line calibrated lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with gold adjustment screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring, repeating on gongs activated by a slide in the band.
Signature Dial, case and movement
Sold: CHF 13,750
