Sold for:
115,000 HKD

“Lovers’ Retreat” Ixora de la Vallée, Swiss, No. 46771, circa 1900. Made for the Chinese market. Fine 18K gold and painted on enamel, pearl-set, hunting-cased, keyless, minute-repeating pocket watch with chronograph. Five-body, "bassine et filets", geometric enameled band, the front cover with the portrait of a lady with a goldpaillon ear-ring on translucent red enamel over wavy engine-turning, the back painted with a courting couple ina rural landscape, the lady feeding her suitor cherries from the tree above, translucent red enamel border overwavy engine-turning, half pearl-set bezels, hinged gold cuvette over glazed bezel for viewing the movement. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, outermost chronograph divisions with five-seconds/minutes Arabic markers, subsidiary seconds. Gold “spade" hands. 45 mm (20’’’) nickel plated, 22jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, Breguet balance spring, visiblechronograph works, repeating on gongs via slide in the band.Cuvette signed.Diam. 55 mm.


Antiquorum

Auctioneer:
Antiquorum

Date:
2005-02-20

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