C. Outer: two-body, polished. Inner: two-body, ?bassine?, polished.
Grading System:
HKD 500,000 - 700,000
USD 65,000 - 90,000
EUR 50,000 - 70,000
The casket: Four-body, rectangular with canted corners, the hinged lid with a cast and chased hinged frame to hold the watch, decorated with foliate swags on a stepped pedestal base, secured by a pin attached with a chain, four basilisks, one at each corner, the sides set with round panels of foil-backed moss agate, the body set with three circular finely painted on enamel plaques, each with four round moss agate panels at each corner, the front depicting a young lady leaning against a wall and holding a bird on her finger in a landscape, the sides with vases of English summer flowers, the back with a goldstone and blue glass panel, drawer below fitted with a mirror, the base set with round panels of foil-backed moss agate, finely chased floral swags and curled feet. The musical movement: 105 x 95 mm., rectangular, brass, reverse fusee and chain, pinned barrel activating six hammers playing on a nest of six bells, winged governor, start/stop lever in the base. The watch: C. Outer, two-body, polished, the bezel set with green and white pastes, the back decorated with a painted on enamel scene of a horse in a landscape, royal blue translucent enamel border over engine-turning, white enamel bead inner and outer borders. Inner: two-body, "bassine", polished. D. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions and Arabic five minute numerals. Gold "beetle & poker" hands. M. 34 mm., gilt brass, full plate, cylindrical pillars, fusee with gut-line, cylinder escapement, three-arm steel balance, flat balance spring, pierced and engraved balance cock, faceted red endstone, regulation dial. Movement signed. Dim. 27.5 x 12 x 13 cm. Diameter of watch. 49 mm.
Grading System:
HKD 120,000 - 160,000
USD 15,000 - 20,000
EUR 12,000 - 16,000
Sold: HKD 236,000
Each: C. Two-body, "Chinese" type, scalloped edges, the back enamel panel finely painted with a rustic scene of a young child being frightened by a dog in a kennel, he clings to his mother who holds flowers in her skirts, a water mill and landscape in the background, the bezels, pendant and bow decorated with pale blue, red and green champlevé enamel. Hinged and sprung gold cuvette.
Grading System:
HKD 1,800,000 - 2,300,000
USD 230,000 - 300,000
EUR 185,000 - 235,000
Sold: HKD 2,309,000
Grading System:
HKD 1,400,000 - 1,700,000
USD 180,000 - 220,000
EUR 145,000 - 175,000
Sold: HKD 3,317,000
C. Two-body, "Empire", the hinged back decorated with a finely painted view in the manner of Claude Vernet of fishermen in a calm harbor landscape with mountains in the distance. Hinged and sprung gold cuvette attached to the movement ring. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Pierced gold "tulip" hands. M. 48 mm., frosted gilt, foliate engraved, standing barrel, duplex escapement, flat-rim five-arm polished steel balance, diamond endstone, index regulator. Movement signed. Diam. 60 mm.
Grading System:
HKD 700,000 - 850,000
USD 90,000 - 110,000
EUR 72,000 - 87,000
Sold: HKD 708,000
C. Two-body, the fixed band, pendant and bow, with royal blue, pale blue and white champlevé enamelled decoration, bezels set with split-pearls, the back with a fine painted on enamel scene depicting three children feeding a rabbit, one cradling a baby rabbit, wooded landscape. Hinged gold cuvette engraved with scrols and a central rosette.
Grading System:
HKD 550,000 - 700,000
USD 70,000 - 90,000
EUR 55,000 - 70,000
Sold: HKD 2,309,000
C. Five-body, "bassine et filets", champlevé enameled band, springloaded cover with a painted on enamel portrait of a young lady within a pearl-set frame on a blue enamel ground with gold paillon, the back cover with a painted on enamel scene of a horseman hunting a lion within a pearl-set frame on a blue ground with gilt paillons, hinged gold cuvette.
Grading System:
HKD 120,000 - 160,000
USD 15,000 - 20,000
EUR 12,000 - 16,000
Sold: HKD 519,200
C. Three-body, the back painted on enamel with a scene of two men in a boat on a jungle shoreline fighting two giant serpents with a hatchet and rifle, their ship moored in the distance, pearl-set bezels, pendant and bow. Spring-loaded silver-gilt cuvette.
Grading System: AAA
HKD 80,000 - 100,000
USD 10,000 - 13,000
EUR 8,000 - 10,000
Sold: HKD 200,600
C. Four-body, "Empire", the bezels set with split-pearls and with pale blue champleve enamel borders, the band, pendant and bow decorated with royal blue enamel and the band set with split-pearls, the back cover decorated with a finely painted on enamel scene depicting Lavinia and Palemon in a wooded landscape. Hinged gold cuvette decorated with a pale blue champleé enamel flower and leaf garland.
Grading System:
HKD 550,000 - 700,000
USD 70,000 - 90,000
EUR 55,000 - 70,000
Sold: HKD 944,000
C. Three-body, ?Empire?, the pendant and bow decorated with royal blue enamel and split-pearls, the band decorated with lozenges and flowerheads of royal blue, pale green and pale blue enamel, translucent red enamel border, the back cover decorated with a finely painted on enamel scene of a Cantonese harbor with Chinese junks on the water and mountains in the background, in the foreground a good luck ceremony is being performed with burning incense and a string of firecrackers, musicians and a group of gentlemen in seventeenth century Chinese dress performing the ceremony, split-pearl set border and bezel. Sprung gilt metal cuvette hinged to the movement ring.
Grading System:
HKD 550,000 - 700,000
USD 70,000 - 90,000
EUR 55,000 - 70,000
Sold: HKD 1,861,000