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BOVET. AN ATTRACTIVE SILVER GILT AND ENAMEL OPENFACE KEYWOUND LEVER WATCH WITH CENTRE SECONDS, MADE FOR THE CHINESE MARKET
Lot 3700

BOVET. AN ATTRACTIVE SILVER GILT AND ENAMEL OPENFACE KEYWOUND LEVER WATCH WITH CENTRE SECONDS, MADE FOR THE CHINESE MARKET

SIGNED BOVET, FLEURIER, NO. 663, CIRCA 1830

Closed30 November 2011

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HKD 93,750

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BOVET. AN ATTRACTIVE SILVER GILT AND ENAMEL OPENFACE KEYWOUND LEVER WATCH WITH CENTRE SECONDS, MADE FOR THE CHINESE MARKET
SIGNED BOVET, FLEURIER, NO. 663, CIRCA 1830
Finely engraved gilt-finished lever movement, engraved floral and scroll decorated gilt cuvette, white enamel dial, Roman numerals, centre seconds, circular case, pearl-set bezel, pendant, bow and rim, the back decorated with a painted polychrome enamel portrait of a lady on translucent scarlet enamel background, cuvette stamped with Bovet's Chinese trademark and numbered, dial signed, movement signed and numbered
38.5 mm. diam.

Specialist note

US$5,000-7,000

For a detailed description and illustrations of similar watches from the Bovet Private Collection see The Mirror of Seduction - Prestigious pairs of "Chinese" Watches, Patek Philippe Museum, pp. 138 & 139.

A similar movement signed Bovet, Fleurier, is illustrated in The Chinese Watch by Alfred Chapuis, p. 179 (calibre Lorimier).