Sold for:
149,500 HKD
149,500 HKD
Bouquet of Flowers Vaucher, Fleurier, made for the Chinese market, circa 1840. Fine and rare 18K gold and enamel center-seconds watch with special movement and duplex escapement. Two-body, the back featuring two enamel techniques: champlevé and painted enamel depicting a bouquet of flowers on a black ground, the bezels, pendant and bow decorated in champlevé foliage on a rose ground, glazed cuvette hinged to the movement ring. White enamel, radial Roman hours, outer minute and second divisions, Arabic fifteen minutes/seconds. Blued steel "spoon" hands.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-06-06
