Collector's Pocket Watches, Wristwatc...
New York, Grand Havana Room, Mar 19, 2003
LOT 198
Attributable to Bruguier with Frères Rochat (FR) movement, Geneva. Produced circa 1860.Fine, silver, gilt and painted-on-enamel singing bird box.
USD 15,000 - 18,000
EUR 14,000 - 17,000
C .rectangular with curved side panels, engine turned on the four sides and the bottom with foliate engraved pattern, top panel decorated with painted on enamel flowers with gold scrolling, center with oval aperture with foliate chasing for the bird lid decorated with finely painted on enamel bouquet of flowers on azure ground.M. rectangular, brass, fusee and chain, eight air and song cams, rectangular bellows.Dim. 80 x 55 x 29 mmPunched "FR" on the back plate of the movement.
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Grade: AA |
Very good |
Case: 3 - 51 |
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Movement: 3* |
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Dial: - |
Notes
This is an interesting box, most likely taken from Rochat's stock and finished by Bruguier. A singing bird box with a strikingly similar movement, marked with three tulips and numbered 391 having the same type mounting brackets can be found in the collection of Musee international d'Horlogerie, La Chaux-de-Fonds.Another one with the same construction and the same enamel landscape on the bird cover by Berguer & Fils was used by Patek Philippe to house their movement No. 28393. See Antiquorum Hong Kong, June 9, 2001, lot 462.