1,861,000 HKD
“Prosperity for the Journey” Ilbery, London, No. 6326. Made for the Chinese market, the case with London hallmarks for 1815. Extremely fine and rare, unusual, 18K gold, painted on enamel and pearl-set pocket watch with center seconds and duplex escapement. Property of a European Collector Three-body, “Empire”, the pendant and bow decorated with royal blue enamel and split-pearls, the band decorated with lozenges and flowerheads of royal blue, pale green and pale blue enamel, translucent red enamel border, the back cover decorated with a finely painted on enamel scene of a Cantonese harbor with Chinese junks on the water and mountains in the background, in the foreground a good luck ceremony is being performed with burning incense and a string of firecrackers, musicians and a group of gentlemen in seventeenth century Chinese dress performing the ceremony, split-pearl set border and bezel. Sprung gilt metal cuvette hinged to the movement ring. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute and seconds divisions, Arabic 15 second numerals. Gold “heart” hands. 50 mm., frosted gilt, Chinese caliber, foliate engraved standing barrel and cocks, duplex escapement, bimetallic compensation balance with blued steel weights, temperature adjustment screws, blued steel flat balance spring, diamond endstone, index regulator. Movement signed. Diam. 59.5 mm. Notes The present watch is a very special type made for the Chinese market and depicting an actual Chinese scene. These s
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-11-25
