1,120,000 HKD
Attributable to Piguet et Meylan, Geneva, No. 1447, the box attributed to Jean-Georges Reymond & Cie, circa 1825. Accompanied by a fitted box marked "Charles Frodsham & Co., Watchmakers to the King, 115 New Bond St, London", circa 1910.Very fine and exceptionally rare 18K gold and enamel double automaton box fitted with a center-seconds watch, in original leather fitted box. Rectangular, three-body, all panels with translucent dark blue enamel over engine-turning and engraving forming a foliate pattern, black lattice, edges in light green opaque champlevé enamel with gold floral pattern, hinged top and bottom, top with aperture for the watch dial set around with half-pearls, when opens reveals the automaton, the back covers small compartment. White enamel, Roman numerals, outer minute ring with fifteen-minute Arabic markers. Blued steel Breguet hands. Set in te middle of the automaton scene, with a lady playing a harp to the right and a man playing a lute to the left, the whole made of multicolored gold and silver, set on finely painted enamel laid on gold plate, the background showing a room with columns, two tables, musical instruments and a window with a view of a classical palace, apertures for winding the watch, automaton, setting and regulating. Rectangular, brass, 78 x 40 mm., bridge caliber, fixed barrel, cylinder escapement with brass escpe wheel, three-arm gold balance flat balance spring, fourth wheel set in the center for central seconds, disc musical moveme
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2002-06-08
