Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Apr 28, 2019

LOT 88

UNSIGNED HISTORICAL PRESENTATION ART DECO CABINET MINIATURE; ENAMEL AND WOOD

HKD 23,000 - 39,000

CHF 3,000 - 5,000 / USD 3,050 - 5,100

Sold: HKD 25,000

"A Raoul Gautier, Directeur de l'Observatoire - 1889-1928 - Les horlogers genevois reconnaissants" (To Raoul Gautier, Director of the Observatory - 1889-1928 - The appreciative Genevan watchmakers) Enamel on copper, round-shaped, Historical Presentation Art Deco cabinet miniature. Blue-night, sky-blue and gold painting on enamel on copper, by an unidentified workshop, Geneva, showing an allegory of Time, inside a circle of hours, surrounded by the twelve signs of the Zodiac.


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Case: 3

Good

Brand Unsigned

Year Circa 1928

Material enamel

Dimensions Ø 140 mm. / 174 x 174 mm. (frame)

Accessories wood frame (probably rosewood)

Notes

Gautier, Raoul Geneva, April 15, 1854 ?? Geneva, April 19, 1931 Swiss astronomer, professor at the University of Geneva and sixth director of the Observatory, from 1889 to 1931. He is the son of Emile Gautier (1822-1891), previous director (1882-1891).