2,060,000 HKD
The Ostrich Fan Watch - Emperor Napoleon III Presentation Czapek & Cie, Place Vendome 23 (Paris), No. 1840. Made for presentation by the Emperor of the French, Napoleon III (1808-1873), circa 1855. Extremely rare and magnificent, 18K gold and painted on enamel, pearl and rose-cut diamond-set, white ostrich feather fan with a concealed watch and pencil. The watch revealed by a spring-loaded cover engraved with the cypher and crown of Napoleon III flanked by winged cherubs, translucent royal blue enamel ground, the shaped body of the fan fully decorated with blue and white champleve enamel and engraved flowers and foliage, the reverse side decorated with a finely painted on enamel panel of the Madonna della Sedia after Raphael and decorated en suite, the sceptre-form handle with tapered shaft decorated with champleve enamel and engraved gold, lobed terminal richly set with rose-cut diamonds and pearls, acorn finial pulling out to detach the pencil. Small white enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track. Blued steel spade hands. Polished gold dial plate. Shaped gilt brass with going barrel, cylinder escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring with regulator set through the dial plate. Signed and numbered on the dial plate, movement numbered. Dim. 22 x 7 cm. Notes This truly magnificent and precious fan is one of very few known of this type and would have been extremely expensive when it was originally sold. The present example is particularly Read more…
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-02-26
