Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Apr 28, 2019

LOT 526

UNSIGNED POCKET WATCH MADE FOR THE CHINESE MARKET; GILDED SILVER, ENAMEL AND PEARLS

HKD 35,000 - 53,000

CHF 4,550 - 6,800 / USD 4,600 - 6,850

Gilded silver (0.800), enamel and pearl-set, open-face, key-winding, round-shaped, pocket watch with centre-seconds, made for the Chinese market. Polychrome painting on enamel on silver, by an unidentified workshop, probably Geneva, showing a young couple making an offering to an altar of Love, in neoclassical-style, on a royal blue background; fluted case-band; bezel set with half-pearls.


Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 3

Good

Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 3-01

Good

HANDS Original

Brand Unsigned

Year circa 1880

Calibre  17''', gilded brass, engraved Chinese-style, with going barrel, lateral lever escapement, monometallic balance (polished steel) with blued-steel wings balance and blued steel flat hairspring

Case No. 501

Material gilded silver, enamel and pearls

Caliber 17''', gilded brass, engraved Chinese-style, with going barrel, lateral lever escapement, monometallic balance (polished steel) with blued-steel wings balance and blued steel flat hairspring

Dimensions Ø 45 mm