The Sandberg Watch Collection

Hotel Richemond, Geneva, Mar 31, 2001

LOT 296

Ilbery, London, No. 2714, circa 1815, made for the Chinese market.Very fine 18 ct. gold and champlevé enamel centre seconds watch with special escapement.

C. Two-body, the back uniting three enamel techniques: champlevé, painted enamel, and cloisonné, with a bouquet of flowers on a turquoise ground, bezels, pendant and bow decorated in with champlevé foliage on black ground. D. White enamel, Roman chapters, outer minute and quarter second divisions. Blued-steel 'skeleton tulip' hands. M. 44.7 mm o, gilt brass, fully engraved 'Chinese' calibre, 11 jewels, free-standing barrel, ruby duplex escapement, uncut bimetallic three-arm balance with three trpezoidal counterweights and three steel screws, blued-steel balance spring, diamond endstone.Signed and numbered on the movement.Diam. 54 mm. Published in the Sandberg book, pages 290-291.