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.


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