Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 08, 2014

LOT 514

BOUCHERON SILVER & GOLD BRACELET WATCH Fic. Boucheron, Paris, case No. 174266. Made circa 1890. Very fine, rare and elegant, renaissance-style, silver on gold, lady's bracelet watch with integral cast and pierced silver on gold bracelet with deeply chased foliate scroll links. Accompanied by a letter of authenticity from Boucheron, Paris.

CHF 7,000 - 9,000

HKD 58,000 - 74,000 / USD 7,500 - 9,500

Five-body with separate inner case fixed in the band, silver and gold, the bezel with pierced border extending over the crystal, flat silver band, beaded winding crown with opposite "faux" crown, gold snap-on back. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and large blue five-minute numerals. Pierced Louis hands. 9''', matte gilt, 8 jewels, cylinder escapement, three-arm gilt balance, flat balance spring, index regulator.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent

Case: 2

Very good

Movement: 3**

Good

Repair required, at buyer's expense

Dial: 2-01

Very good

HANDS Original

Notes

Dial and case signed. DIAM. 27 mm. THICKNESS 8 mm. Approx. overall length 160 mm. This attractive and unusual watch demonstrates the elegance of the House of Boucheron. The House of Boucheron is a French family dynasty founded by Frederic Boucheron in 1858, with the opening of his first store in the Galerie de Valois, at Palais-Royal, during the heyday of the Second french Empire. In 1893, Frédéric Boucheron became the first jeweller to move to Place Vendome. Legend has it that he chose 26 Place Vendome, where Boucheron remains to this day, because it was the sunniest corner of the square.] He believed that the diamonds in the windows would sparkle all the more brilliantly.