The Sandberg Watch Collection

Hotel Richemond, Geneva, Mar 31, 2001

LOT 325

Kulper, Brueg, circa 1740.Fine and unusual oval vermeil tobacco box fitted with a watch.

CHF 10,000 - 12,000

USD 6,000 - 7,000

C. Three-body, oval, the covers opening from a central hinge, the dial on one side and the tobacco compartment on the other, the lids engraved with a charmingly naïve scene of two gentlemen sitting at a table, one smoking a pipe, the other pointing at a globe. D. Silver, champlevé, Roman chapters, outer Arabic five-minutes in arched cartouches, set in an engraved gilt plate, auxiliary regulating dial in the top left corner, an identical dummy to the right for symmetry. Blued-steel 'poker and beele' hands. M. 35 x 49 mm, semicircular, brass full plate, baluster pillars, fusee and chain for the going train, verge escapement, plain three-arm balance, flat balance spring, plain brass one-footed cock.Dim. 88 x 56 x 14 mm. Published in the Sandberg book, pages 376-377.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 4 - 6 - 15
Movement: 4 - 5 - 6*
Dial: 4 - 6 - 01

Notes

There is another Kulper box, in the Zale Collection, and illustrated in their catalog under No. 35. It is virtually identical except for the lid engraving, which is nonetheless executed in the same manner.Kulper Johan (Culper) (1677 - 1746)listed as having been active in Brieg, renowned maker of snuff bottles and repeating and striking watches.