Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong, Apr 23, 2006

LOT 84

?The Pear? Ilbery, London, No. 6141. Made for the Chinese market, circa 1820. Very fine and extremely rare, 18K gold, pearl and painted on enamel pear-shaped pocket watch with center-seconds and duplex escapement.

C. Two-body, pear-shaped, the bezel set with split-pearls, the band, stem and bow decorated with pale green, blue, white and red champlevé enamel, hinged and sprung scallop-edged back cover set with a finely painted panel of summer flowers and fruit within a gold and enamel wavy-line border. Hinged and sprung gold cuvette overlaid with translucent guilloché scarlet enamel within a gold, white and pale green enamel scalloped border. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals and outer minute and seconds divisions, Arabic quarter-hour numerals. Blued steel pierced hands. M. 45 mm., gilt "Chinese" caliber, foliate chased and engraved, standing barrel, duplex escapement, three-arm gold balance, blued steel flat balance spring, diamond endstone, index regulator. Movement signed. Dim. 63 x 53 mm. excluding pendant. To be sold without reserve