146,500 CHF
La Vallée de l'ArveMaurice Ditisheim , No. 2259, enamel attributed to Louis Rosselet, circa 1890.Very important and rare 18 ct. gold and enamel, pearl-set hunting-cased, keyless, double train, astronomical grande et petite sonnerie clock watch with minute repeating and perpetual calendar, made for the Chinese market. Notes Rosselet LouisA well-known enamel painter of the second half of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, he specialised in countryside scenes and landscapes and often worked for the Chinese and Indian markets. Among his famous scenes : ' Peacock by a lakeside ', ' Bouquets of flowers '. He is recorded at Place du Temple 171 in 1857.Ditisheim Maurice (d.1895)The company was founded in 1858 in Chaux-de-Fonds by Maurice Ditisheim and was also called Ditisheim Frères. An advertisement in the 'Almanach des Horlogers' (St. Imier 1888) mentioned them as a 'Fabrique d'Horlogerie' and they both bought and sold. In 1894, the Maurice Ditisheim company and the company Ditisheim Frères, Fabrique Vulcain, combined forces. Then the name became 'Maurice Ditisheim, Fabrique Vulcain'.Maurice Ditisheim exhibited watches at the 1893 Columbian World Exhibition in Chicago.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2001-03-31
