100,300 HKD
“Courting Doves” Vaucher, Fleurier. Made for the Chinese market, circa 1860. Very fine, 18K gold and painted on enamel center-seconds pocket watch. Two-body, the back finely painted on enamel with courting doves among flowers against a translucent red guilloché enamel ground, the bezels, pendant, and bow in black, red and pink champlevé enamel. Glazed cuvette hinged to the movement ring. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute/seconds divisions with fifteen-minute/seconds Arabic numerals. Blued steel “spoon” hands. 45 mm, 20’’’, polished steel, "Chinese" caliber with steel wheels and standing barrel, ruby cylinder escapement, plain five-arm steel balance, blued steel balance-spring, index regulator. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 54 mm. To be sold without reserve
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-04-23
