76,700 HKD
“Alpine Landscape” Fritz Courvoisier, Locle, No. 14263. Made circa 1850. Fine and rare, 18K gold and painted on enamel cabriolet lady’s pendant watch. Outer: detachable, three-body, hinged cover decorated with royal blue translucent enamel panels edged in white with gold vine leaves and foliage, central finely painted oval scene of a Swiss landscape, hinged bezel with conforming decoration. Inner: chased foliate bezel, hinged back cover decorated with a painted view of flowers in an alpine landscape, royal blue and gold border. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel, Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel “Breguet” hands. Frosted gilt, bar caliber, 13-jewels, uncut bimetallic compensation balance, detached lever escapement, blued steel flat balance spring, index regulator. Signed and numbered on the cuvette, case numbered. Diam. 43 mm. Notes The present lot was previously sold by Antiquorum, Hong Kong, February 20, 2005, lot 29.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-06-02
