19,550 CHF
Czapek et Cie a Genève, No. 3158, enamel attributed to Charles-Louis Glardon, given by the Khedive Ismail Pasha to Charles-Edmond Chojecki, Commissaire Général of the Egyptian Pavilion at the Paris Universal Exhibition, in 1867. Very fine and important 18K gold hunting-cased keyless pocket watch with miniature enamel portrait and with Jean Adrien Philippe’s winding/setting mechanism. Four-body, "bassine et filets", engine-turned covers, front with enameled tughra, the stylized typographicalinscription of the Sultans of the Ottoman Empire, here that of Abdul-Aziz (1830-1876), gold hinged cuvette withsuperbly executed enamel portrait of Charles-Edmond Chojecki’s daughter Marie after a photograph by EtienneCarjat, Paris, back with an Arabic inscription asking that God bless and protect her, large, flat winding crown. White enamel, Roman numerals, outer minute track. Blued steel "Spade" hands. 40.5 mm. (18’’’), frostedgilt bridge caliber, 19 jewels, straight line calibrated lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance withblued steel Breguet balance spring, Philippe’s third winding/setting "sliding pinion" mechanism.Signed on the movement.Diam. 48 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-04-24
