Important Collectors Wristwatches, P...
Geneva, Nov 16, 2008
LOT 351
Watch Novelty Ashtrays Leon Charpilloz and Gilbert Periat, Suisse. Made in the 20th century.Fine and unusual, musical ashtray with combined lighter, and a ceramic ashtray advertising the ?Hebe? watch. To be sold without reserve
CHF 600 - 900
USD 550 - 850 / EUR 380 - 550
Sold: CHF 540
The musical ashtray with red ceramic body, gilt metal rim in the form of a wheel inscribed ?Leon Charpilloz S.A., Malleray, Fabrique de Pignons et Pivotages?, with five curved wheels for holding cigarettes, the centre modeled as a pinion containing the lighter, when the lighter is removed the music plays, musical movement in the base; pink ceramic ashtray with finial realistically modeled as a ?Hebe? wristwatch. In good condition, Hebe ashtray cracked.
