62,500 HKD
Edouard Juvet, Fleurier, No. 79177. Made for the Chinese market, circa 1860. Very fine, silver and painted on enamel center-seconds pocket watch with duplex escapement. Three-body, "Chinese", spring-loaded back finely painted on enamel depicting a noble young man, blue guilloché background, the bezels with a repeated champlevé enamel pattern of foliage, the pendant and bow decorated to match. Silver cuvette hinged to the movement ring. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute and seconds divisions with fifteen-minute Arabic numerals. Black spade hands. 48 mm., gilt brass, fully engraved "Chinese" caliber, escapement jeweled, free-standing barrel, single wheel duplex escapement, five-arm steel balance with flat rim, flat steel balance spring, index regulator. Movement signed and numbered. Diam. 56 mm
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-06-25
