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LOT 46

Maurice Ditisheim, Chaux-de-Fonds, No. 10644, enamel attributed to P-Amédée Champod, circa 1895. Very fine 18K gold and painted on enamel, pearl-set hunting-cased keyless minute-repeating watch with double-seconds.

HKD 75,000 - 100,000

EUR 8,000 - 11,000 / USD 9,500 - 13,000

Sold: HKD 115,000

C. Six-body, ?bassine et filets?, back painted on enamel with a lady and her suitor sitting under a tree in the countryside, back painted with a portrait of a lady, pearl-set bezels, band in champlevé enamel, gold hinged cuvette over glazed gold bezel for viewing the movement. D. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions, outermost seconds track divided into fifths with radial Arabic beat counts, subsidiary sunk seconds. Gold ?Louis XV? hands. M. 44 mm (20???), frosted gilt, 30 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with Breguet balance spring, ?swan-neck? micrometric regulator, repeating on gongs through activating slide in the band.Case punched with maker?s trademark registered on April 4, 1892.Diam. 56 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3 - 01

Notes

P.-Amédée Champod (1834-1913) One of the most celebrated enamel painters of the end of the 19th century, P.-Amédée Champod specialized in portraits of important personalities from the Orient as well as Europe, notably a portrait of Pope Pius IX. He also painted fine landscapes and hunting scenes for the Chinese and the Indian markets. He worked for Bovet, Vaucher, Vrard, and Courvoisier Frères, among others. His technique was outstanding and his portraits may be compared with the most accurate modern color photographs. "Dictionnaire des Horlogers Genevois", Osvaldo Patrizzi, Antiquorum Editions, Geneva, 1998. For a biography of M. Ditisheim, see lot 7.