Important Watches, Wristwatches and C...

Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 18, 1998

LOT 178

Ilbery, London, No. 2491, Swiss, made for the Chinese Market, circa 1830. Very fine 18K gold and enamel centre-seconds watch with special escapement.

C. Two-body, the bezels decorated with formal motifs in red and green champleve enamel, the back centred with a line polychrome enamelled composition of summer flowers over an azure ground, outer foliage and floral decoration against a pink ground. Hinged gold glazed cuvette. D. White enamel, Roman hour numerals, minutes and seconds divisions. Blued-steel pierced hands. M. Entirely engraved, gilt Chinese calibre with free-standing barrel, English single wheel duplex escapement, steel and brass three arm balance with blued-steel weights, flat balance spring with regulator. Signed on the movement. Diam. 56mm.