Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong, Apr 23, 2006

LOT 82

?The Gift? Ilbery, London, No. 6226, Swiss. Made for the Chinese market, circa 1820. Very fine 18K gold and painted on enamel, pearl-set, pocket watch, the enamel attributed to the workshop of Abraham Lissignol.

C. Two-body, ?Empire?, with fixed bezel, the band with split-pearl inlaid champlevé decoration, split pearl set bezels pendant and bow with champlevé enameled decoration, the back enamel panel finely painted with a scene depicting two young women and a boy in classical dress within a landscape, a blue vase of roses and poppies on a table between, one of the women gestures to the flowers. Hinged gold cuvette fitted to the movement ring and engraved with decoration. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Gold "ovoid" hands. M. 48 mm, gilt brass, Chinese caliber, with free standing barrel, entirely engraved, single wheel duplex escapement, bimetallic compensation balance with wedge-shaped blued steel weights, flat balance spring, diamond endstone, index regulator. Movement signed. Diam. 59 mm. To be sold without reserve