12,650 CHF
The Hunting TigerEdouard Juvet, Fleurier, circa 1850, made for the Oriental market. Fine, gilt silver and enamel, pearl-set center-seconds watch with duplex escapement. Three-body, the back painted on enamel with a hunter lying on the ground being attacked by a tiger while another, on a white horse, is shooting at it, pearl-set bezels, pendant and bow, gilt silver cuvette mounted to the movement adapter ring. White enamel, radial Roman hour chapters, outer minute and seconds divisions and 15-minute/seconds markers. Gold "spade" hands. 48 mm, gilt brass fully engraved "Chinese" calibre, 9 jewels, free-standing barrel, ruby duplex escapement, five-arm plin steel balance, flat balance-spring, diamond endstone.Signed on the movement. Diam. 58 mm. Notes See note to lot 196 for Juvet's biography
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2001-10-13
