75,000 HKD
VACHERON & CONSTANTIN STERLING SILVER STRUT CLOCK HA. St, Geneve, made for Vacheron & Constantin, movement No. 400639, case No. 57358, British silver import hallmark for 1924. Fine and very rare, key-wind, 8-day going, sterling silver strut clock with painted porcelain panel. Domed rectangular with hinged strut, reeded band, bow to the top with blue-bell highlights to the sides, acorn feet, the large front painted porcelain panel with a young maiden seated near a cliff on a bench next to a lyre, a peacock in the foreground. Rectangular, off-white enamel with blue fancy Arabic numerals, outer oval minutes. Stone-set hands.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-10-23