30,000 HKD
SILVER QUARTER-REPEATER FOR THE CHINESE MARKET Swiss, No. 4221, retailed by L. Vrard & Co., Tientsin. Made for the Chinese market, circa 1900. Fine, silver and gold quarter-repeating watch. Four-body, satin, hinged, decorated covers with a hunting scene to one side and hunting supplies to the other, decorated band, the inside front with dedication in Chinese, hinged cuvette. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and fi ve-minute Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds. Gilt Louis XV hands. 44 mm, gilt, the center jewel with chatons, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, blued steel Breguet overcoil hairspring, index regulator, repeating on gongs. Cuvette signed. Diam. 56 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2012-02-26
