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The Furama Hotel Hong Kong, Victoriana Room, Jun 05, 2000

LOT 201

Courvoisier Frères, Nos. 75246 and 75249, Swiss, made for the Chinese Market, circa 1880.Fine and unusual 18K gold and enamel hunting-cased, pair of keyless fob watches.

C. Both, four-body with scalloped edge engraved with formal decoration, the cover enamel panels with symmetrical scenes, each depicting a boy in a park, holding a basket of flowers, one painted over a dark blue ground, the other against a pink flinqué ground; both enamel back panels painted with a composition of summer flowers over a powder blue ground. Hinged gold cuvette. D. Both, white enamel with Roman numerals, red outer Arabic minutes ring and sunk subsidiary seconds. Gold paste-set fancyands. M. Identical 12???, gilt brass, both with 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, Breguet balance spring.Signed on the dials and movements, Chinese signature inside the covers.Diam. 36 mm