SWISS. A GOLD, ENAMEL, DIAMOND AND PEARL-SET BALL FORM WATCH WITH MATCHING BROOCH
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SWISS. A GOLD, ENAMEL, DIAMOND AND PEARL-SET BALL FORM WATCH WITH MATCHING BROOCH

UNSIGNED, CIRCA 1880

已结束2012年11月28日

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HKD 50,000

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SWISS. A GOLD, ENAMEL, DIAMOND AND PEARL-SET BALL FORM WATCH WITH MATCHING BROOCH
UNSIGNED, CIRCA 1880
Keyless jewelled lever movement, white enamel dial, Arabic numerals, ball-form case, gold and pearl-set bezel, translucent blue enamel over engine-turned ground, inlaid with pearl and diamond floral and foliage, central diamond-set line to the gold, pearl and enamel pendant loop, winding mechanism operated by rotating the lower half of the watch, matching gold, enamel, diamond and pearl-set chain and palmette clip, unsigned
22 mm. diam.

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US$5,000-8,000

A similar ball-form watch is illustrated in Timepieces, The Forbidden City Publishing House, pp.294. The tome comprises a selection of timepieces in Beijing's Palace Museum which owns one of the largest collections of mechanical timepieces of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries in the world, comprising over 1,000 pieces. The collection contains both Chinese and foreign-made watches, clocks and automatons. Chinese exhibits came from the Palace's own workshops, Guangzhou (Canton) and Suzhou (Suchow). Watches made abroad include manufacturers from Britain, France, Switzerland, the United States and Japan.