11,500 CHF
Charles Oudin, Horloger de la Marine, Palais Royal 52, No. 21875, circa 1870.Amusing 18 ct. gold and enamel pendant form watch in the shape of a book with a folding frame for 10 photographs. Three-body, canted corners, the front cover painted with flowers on a white ground, watch in the centre, the back with an applied central blank medallion within a black enamel foliate decorated frame on a matted gold ground, gold, hinged cuvette, inside the back hinged oval frames for ten photographs, engraved clasp. 19.1 x 24.8 mm, rectangular, gilt brass bar calibre, 10 jewels, cylinder escapement, plainilt three-arm balance, flat balance spring.Signed on the cuvette.Dim. 25 x 22 mm. Published in the Sandberg book, pages 482-483. Notes Oudin CharlesFor a biography, see lot 98.Juvet, Edouard Lot Léo.One of the important Swiss horological families working for the Chinese market. Edouard Juvet (1820-1883) was first established in Buttes in 1842, but in 1844 moved his workshop to Fleurier. He began making ' Chinese ' watches in 1856. Edouard's sons Ami-Louis and Léo travelled to China to work in the family firm. When Ami-Louis died there, Léo (1848-1891) took his place. In Shanghai, the Juvets were rivalled only by the Bovets, yet the two families maintained friendly relations. The maison Juveprospered, opening branches in Tien-tsin and Saigon, to the extent that in 1872 Léo wrote : 'Our watches sell like salt'. In 1873, Edouard Juvet registered a trademark in Chinese characters
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2001-03-31
