207,000 HKD
Titus and BereniceEdouard Juvet, Fleurier, made for the Chinese market circa 1840. Fine, 18K gold and painted on enamel center-seconds watch with special escapement. Two-body, "Chinese" style with the gold cuvette hinged to the movement ring, spring-loaded back finely painted on enamel with a couple, he is holding her hand, and in a posture as wanting to convince her of something, possibly depicting Titus and Berenice, with a dark sunset in the background, roses steming from a stone barrier to the left, bezels with champlevé enamel with repeated pattern of white flowers on scarlet translucent ground. White enamel, Roman numerals, outer minute divisionswith fifteen-minute Arabic markers. Gold "spade" hands. 47 mm.ø, gilt brass, fully engraved "Chinese" calibre, 11 jewels, free-standing barrel, rubyduplex escapement, five-arm plain steel balance, blued-steel balance spring, diamond endstone.Signed on the movement.Diam. 55 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2002-06-08
