519,200 HKD
“Tiger Hunt” J. Ullmann & Co, Hong Kong, Shanghai & Tientsin. Made for the Chinese market, circa 1900. Very fine and exceptionally rare 18K gold, pearl-set and painted on enamel, keyless, hunting-cased, two-train, carillon, grande et petite sonnerie pocket watch with trip minute-repeat. Property of an Italian Gentleman Five-body, "bassine et filets", champlevé enameled band, springloaded cover with a painted on enamel portrait of a young lady within a pearl-set frame on a blue enamel ground with gold paillon, the back cover with a painted on enamel scene of a horseman hunting a lion within a pearl-set frame on a blue ground with gilt paillons, hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds, outer minute track and Arabic five minutes. Gilt paste-set hands. 19.5, frosted gilt, 1/2 plate, 28 jewels, two-barrels with tandem winding, lateral lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with Breguet balance spring, repeating via three hammers on three gongs via push-trip in the band. Dial and cuvette signed. Diam. 56 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-11-25