Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Oct 27, 2019

LOT 462

JUVET SMALL POCKET WATCH WITH CENTRE-SECONDS MADE FOR THE CHINESE MARKET; GILDED METAL, ENAMEL AND PEARLS

HKD 48,000 - 64,000

CHF 6,000 - 8,000 / USD 6,150 - 8,200

TO BE SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE

Sold: HKD 50,000

Gilded metal, enamel and pearl-set, open-face, key-winding, roundshaped, small pocket watch, with centre-seconds, made for the Chinese market. Case-back with polychrome painting on enamel, by an unidentified workshop, probably Geneva, showing a bunch of multicoloured flowers and leaves on a green enamel background; fluted caseband; bezels, pendant and bow set with half-pearls.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 3-6-8

Good

Slightly oxidized

Slightly scratched

Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 3-01

Good

HANDS Original

Brand Edouard Juvet

Year Circa 1860

Calibre  14’’’, gilded brass, Chinese-style, with going barrel, duplex escapement, monometallic balance (polished steel) with blued-steel wings balance and blued steel flat hairspring

Case No.  37 275

Diameter 38.7 mm

Signature Movement