5,500 CHF
J. ULLMANN PATENT 8-DAY WATCH – THE LADY & THE STORK J. Ullmann & Co, (Chaux-de-Fonds), Hong Kong, Shanghai & Tientsin. Made for the Chinese market, circa 1890. Fine, silver and painted on enamel, pearl-set, huntingcased, 8-day going lady's pendant watch with visible escapement. To be sold without reserve Three-quarter white enamel with gold paillon fl oral decoration, small dial with radial Roman numerals, outer gold paillon minute divisions, aperture at the left for the visible escapement. Gilt Louis XV hands. 34 mm, rhodium-plated, “fausses-côtes” decoration, the mainspring housed in a large barrel mounted on the backplate,17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, fl at balance spring, index regulator. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2012-05-13
