550,000 HKD
EDOUARD JUVET TITUS AND BERENICE GOLD Edouard Juvet, "Titus & Berenice", Fleurier. Made for the Chinese market, No. 69, circa 1860. Fine and rare, center-seconds, gold, champlevé and painted on enamel pocket watch with duplex escapement. Two-body, Empire, the bezel decorated with translucent red enamel and white enamel flower heads with blue centers, intersected by blue rui heads, pendant and bow decorated with blue and white champlevé enamel, the back with a painted on enamel panel depicting Titus and Berenice in a garden by an altar and urn garlanded with roses, translucent red guilloche enamel ground, the border decorated to match the bezel. Hinged gold cuvette with engraved decoration. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute and seconds divisions and Arabic 15-minute numerals. Gilt ovoid hands. Gilded brass, engraved with flowers and foliage, standing barrel, five-arm polished steel balance, jewelled duplex escapement, flat balance spring, index regulator. Movement signed. Notes DIAM. 56 mm. TITUS AND BERENICE TITUS, the elder son of Emperor Vespasian, was born in AD 39. From AD 61 to 63 he served in Germany and Britain as military tribune. He then returned to Rome and married Arrecina Tertulla, the daughter of a former commander of the Praetorian guard. A year later Arrecina died and TitusmarriedMarcia Furnilla. She was from a distinguished family which had connections to opponents of Nero. After the failure of the Pisonian conspiracy, Titus thought
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2015-06-28
