106,200 HKD
“Garden Romance” J. Ullmann & Co, Chaux-de-Fonds, Hong Kong & Shanghai, No.169. Made for the Chinese market circa 1900. Fine and rare 18K gold and painted on enamel, pearl-set keyless, quarter-repeating pocket watch with automaton Jacks. Four-body, "bassine et filets", champlevé enameled band, spring-loaded back painted on enamel with a courting couple in a formal garden dark blue guilloché enamel background, bezels set with half pearls. Gold hinged cuvette. Small translucent blue guilloché enamel with radial gold Roman numerals and gold outer gold paillon minute track, subsidiary seconds, flanked by painted on enamel figures of Chronos and cherubs appearing to repeat the hours and quarters on bells, the whole on a blued steel plate. Gold “cathedral” hands. 39 mm (17’’’), frosted gilt, 3/4 plate, 12 jewels, lateral lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with Breguet balance spring, repeating on gongs activated by a slide in the band. Cuvette signed and inscribed with erroneous technical details. Diam. 51 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-04-23