Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Oct 27, 2019

LOT 463

UNSIGNED SMALL POCKET WATCH WITH CENTRE-SECONDS MADE FOR THE CHINESE MARKET; GILDED METAL, ENAMEL AND PEARLS

HKD 48,000 - 64,000

CHF 6,000 - 8,000 / USD 6,150 - 8,200

Gilded metal, enamel and pearl-set, open-face, key-winding, roundshaped, small pocket watch, with centre-seconds, made for the Chinese market. Case-back with orange flinqué enamel (translucent enamel over guilloché engine-turning), with polychrome painting on enamel, by an unidentified workshop, probably Geneva, showing a young Western woman, in bust, looking to the right; fluted case-band; bezels, pendant and bow set with half-pearls


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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 1860-1880

Calibre  15’’’, gilded brass, engraved Chinese-style, with going barrel, duplex escapement, monometallic balance (polished steel) with blued-steel wings balance and blued steel flat hairspring

Case No. 105 079

Diameter 39.5 mm

Signature Movement