325,000 HKD
CHOPARD URUSHI GOLDFISH WHITE GOLD Chopard, L. U.C. XP Automatic, No. 119550, case No. 1581327, created by artist Kichiro Masumura with Yamada Heiando. Made in 2009. Very fine and elegant, water-resistant, self-winding, 18K white gold and makie (traditional Japanese art of lacquering) wristwatch with Chopard 18K white gold buckle. Accompanied by the original urushi (lacquerware) & signed wooden box, and lacquerware instruction. Three-body, polished, inclined bezel, concave lugs, transparent back with 8 screws, sapphire crystals. The theme “Water” - lacquered in gold showing one black and four red goldfish are elegantly swimming. Mother of pearl dots sprinkled. White gold dauphine hands. Cal. 96HM, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 29 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self compensating flat balance spring, 22K gold micro-rotor. Case and movement signed. Diam. 39.5 mm. Thickness 7.5 mm. Notes Yamada Heiando opened its first lacquerwware boutique in 1919. They provide tablewares to the Japanese Imperial Household.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2013-01-26
