34,500 HKD
J. Ullmann & Co., Chaux-de-Fonds, Hong Kong & Shanghai, made for the Chinese market circa 1910. Fine 18K gold and painted on enamel, pearl-set hunting-cased keyless quarter-repeating lady’s pendant watch, made for the Chinese market. Six-body, “Empire”, both covers with translucent Imperial blue enamel over “spinning” engine-turning, centers painted with a mandolin, musical score and roses, pearl-set bezels, gold hinged cuvette over glazed gold bezel for viewing the movement. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions, subsidiary sunk seconds. Gold “Louis XV” hands. 31 mm, frosted gilt, 32 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with Breguet balance spring, repeating on gongs through activating slide in the band. Signed on the cuvette.Diam. 38 mm.J. Ullmann & Co., La Chaux-de-Fonds, Fleurier, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tientsin and Vladivostok. Notes Ullmann registered his trademark (in Chinese characters) on March 13, 1893. In the application he was listed as a merchant. In 1897, another registration application listed him as a “fabricant”. In 1918 Jacques Ullmann & Co. bought the Bovet brand from Leuba Brothers, and in 1932 the company ceased to exist. In 1923 the firm was listed in both La Chaux-de-Fonds and Fleurier.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-06-06
