50,400 HKD
Calm Harbor J(u)l(ie)n Le Roy a Paris, No. 66180. Made for the Islamic market, circa 1760. Fine, large, quarter-repeating, gold, painted on enamel and pearl-set pocket watch. To be sold without reserve Two-body, pearl-set bezel engraved with repeat leaf pattern, the back decorated with a scene of ships moored in a harbor in a pearl-set vase-shaped cartouche with royal blue, red and green translucent enamel border with gold paillons, outer engraved border decorated to match the bezel, shuttered winding hole. Gilt dust cover. White enamel with radial Islamic numerals, outer dot minute divisions and Islamic five-minute numerals. Seed pearl-set gold hands. 43 mm., matte gilt, full plate, cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, threearm brass balance, pierced and engraved continental balance cock with steel endplate, silver regulation dial. Dial, dust cover and movement signed, repeating on a bell (missing) in the back of the case activated by depressing the pendant. Diam. 58 mm
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-06-27
