143,750 HKD
Swiss, J. L. circa 1890. Very fine and rare 18K gold, hunting-cased, astronomical, minute-repeating pocket watch with full calen-dar and moon phase. Six-body, "bassine et filets", polished, gold hinged cuvette over glazed cover, front cover with applied multi col-oredgold monogram ”WCK” within floral surround. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minutetrack, outermost Arabic five minute markers, subsidiary sunk dials for days of the week, date, and month withconcentric subsidiary seconds, inverted moon phase aperture at 12. Gold "Louis" hands.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-02-20