Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces.
Hong Kong, Oct 27, 2018
LOT 328
JACQUES BRUGUIER SINGING BIRD BOX, GILDED SILVER
HKD 200,000 - 280,000
CHF 25,000 - 35,000 / USD 25,600 - 36,000
Sold: HKD 256,250
bellows and cams Gilded silver, enamel, key-winding, horizontal rectangular-shaped, singing bird box The scene painting on enamel on copper on the cover showing a mountain landscape probably inspired by the Dents du Midi in the Chablais Alps in the Swiss canton of Valais.
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: AAA |
Excellent |
Case: 3-8 |
Good Slightly scratched |
Movement: 3* |
Good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Brand Jacques Bruguier
Year Circa 1850-1860
Movement No. 76
Caliber Rectangular (90 x 43 mm) brass, with fusee and chain,
Dimensions 97 x 60 x 33 mm.
Signature Movement
Accessories Original fitted box; winding-key
Notes
Bruguier, Jacques, Geneva The son of the celebrated Genevan mechanician Charles Bruguier (1788-1862), singing bird box maker. He also worked in Geneva, at first at 6, rue Bonivard, and later at 14, rue du Cendrier, just before taking over his father's workshop and becoming his successor after his death in the early 1860's.