Bovet, London, No. 604, made for the Chinese Market, with London hallmarks for 1815. Very fine 18 ct. gold and enamel centre seconds watch with special escapement. | Important Collectors Wristwatches Pocket Watches & Clocks | Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, 21st October 1995

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LOT 121

Bovet, London, No. 604, made for the Chinese Market, with London hallmarks for 1815. Very fine 18 ct. gold and enamel centre seconds watch with special escapement.

CHF 100,000 - 120,000

C. Double body, the fixed bezel, pendant and bow with green, blue and red champlevé enamelled decoration, the back with a very fine enamel panel, painted in the manner of Richter with a sea-side landscape, an Oriental sailing boat on the foreground, a Dutch military fortress on the back. Hinged glazed gold cuvette. D. White enamel with Roman numerals and outer minute and seconds ring. M. B1ued and polished steel bar movement with free standing barrel, duplex escapement with steel wheel, flat plain polished steel three-arm balance, flat balance spring with regulator. Signed on the cuvette bezel. In excellent good condition. Diam. 59 mm.

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Note: According to A. Chapuis, La Montre Chinoise, the Bovets, settled in London in 1815. A watch signed Tevob (Bovet's Chinese signature), from the Geneva Museum, is illustrated page 76. Among other information, Chapuis mentions blued and polished steel movements of this type and indicates that to his knowledge, they were not produced in Fleurier, but in England. For a biography on Richter, see lot 119.