287,500 HKD
The Flower Gatherers – Mirror Image Pair Courvoisier Frères, Swiss, No. 75246 & No. 75249. Made for the Chinese market, circa 1890. Very fine and rare, small, mirror image pair of 18K yellow gold and painted on enamel lady’s keyless pendant watches. Both, four-body with scalloped edge engraved with formal decoration, the cover enamel panels with symmetrical scenes, each depicting a boy in a landscape holding a basket of flowers, one painted over a dark blue guilloché ground, the other against a pink guilloché ground; both enamel back panels painted with a composition of summer flowers over a powder blue ground. Hinged gold cuvette. Both, white enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, red outer Arabic five-minute numerals, subsidiary seconds. Gold paste-set fancy hands. Identical 12’’’, gilt brass, both with 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring. Signed on the dials and movements, Chinese signature inside the covers. Diam. 36 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-06-25
