97,750 HKD
“The Tiger’s Fate” Bovet, Fleurier, No. 914, enamel attributed to P. Amédée Champod, made for the Chinese market, circa 1870. Very fine, silver gilt and painted on enamel, large pearl-set center-seconds pocket watch. Three-body, the back painted on enamel with a Hindu horseman on a whitehorseshooting arrows at a tiger in a landscape, pearl-set bezels, pendant andbow. Silver gilt cuvette. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute and seconds divisionsand Arabic 15-minute/seconds numerals. Blued steel“ovoid” hands. 47 mm, gilt brass fully engraved "Chinese" calibre, 9jewels, free-standing barrel, duplex escapement, bimetalliccompensation balance, blued steel flat balance-spring, index regulator.Signed on the movement and also with Chinese characters.Diam. 56 mm.For a biography of the enamel artist P–Amedee Champod, see lot 33. Notes For a biography of the enamel artist P–Amedee Champod, see lot 33.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-07-10