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The Ritz-carlton Hotel, Hong-kong, Jun 08, 2002
LOT 269
HeliosCourvoisier Frères, La Chaux-de-Fonds, No. 47138, circa 1820.Fine 18K gold quarter-repeating watch with special dial.
HKD 11,500 - 15,500
EUR 1,700 - 2,300 / USD 1,500 - 2,000
Sold: HKD 16,100
C. Four-body, "Empire", engine-turned back cover, reeded band, spring-loaded, hinged gilt cuvette. D. Gold, center with chased Helios in his chariot drawn by four horses, applied gold Roman numerals, outer minute divisions, matte ground. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. 52 mm., gilt brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring, continental cock.Signed on the cuvette and movement.Diam. 55 mm.
| Grading System | |
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Grade: A |
Good |
Case: 3 - 14 |
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Movement: 3* |
Good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 3 - 01 |
Notes
The figure in the chariot represents Helios, the Sun, who drives his chariot across the sky every day to warm the Earth. In the modern pictorial tradition Apollo, the incarnation of ideal beauty, eternally youthful, is identified with the Sun, whose chariot he drives, as pictured, for example, in the Gallery of Apollo at Versailles.