51,750 HKD
Henry Sandoz, Swiss, No. 56806, circa 1900. Made for the Chinese market. ket. Fine silver gilt and painted on enamel, pearl-set, hunting-cased, keyless, minute-repeating pocket watch with chronograph. Five-body, "bassine et filets", floral enameled band, the front cover with the portrait of a lady with a gold pail-lonear-ring and necklace writing a letter, translucent red enamel ground over sun-burst engine-turning, the backpainted with a nanny minding two children, translucent red enamel border over wavy engine-turning, half pearl-setbezels, hinged gilt cuvette. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, outermost chrono-graphdivisions with five-seconds/minutes Arabic markers, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel “Breguet” hands. 42 mm (18.5’’’) frosted gilt, half plate, 22 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensationbalance, Breguet balance spring, visible chronograph works, repeating on gongs via slide in the band.Cuvette signed. Movement with applied Sandoz trademark.Diam. 55 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-02-20
