播威,FLEURIER,罕有及優美,鍍銀、琺瑯鑲珍珠,對裝中心秒針懷錶,為中國市場製造,蓋印有倫敦日期字款的1865年
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播威,FLEURIER,罕有及優美,鍍銀、琺瑯鑲珍珠,對裝中心秒針懷錶,為中國市場製造,蓋印有倫敦日期字款的1865年

SIGNED JUVET, NO. 330079 AND 330084, STAMPED WITH LONDON DATE LETTER FOR 1865

已結束2012年11月12日

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CHF 43,750

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播威,FLEURIER,罕有及優美,鍍銀、琺瑯鑲珍珠,對裝中心秒針懷錶,為中國市場製造,蓋印有倫敦日期字款的1865年

BOVET, FLEURIER. A RARE AND ATTRACTIVE SILVER GILT, ENAMEL AND PEARL-SET MIRROR-IMAGE PAIR OF OPENFACE CENTRE SECONDS LEVER WATCHES WITH ORIGINAL FITTED BOX, MADE FOR THE CHINESE MARKET SIGNED BOVET, NO. 330079 AND 330084, STAMPED WITH LONDON DATE LETTER FOR 1865. Finely engraved floral and scroll decorated gilt finished jeweled keywound lever movements, bimetallic compensation balances, hinged glazed display cuvettes, white enamel dials, Roman numerals, blued steel spade hands, centre seconds, large circular cases, ribbed bands, pearl-set bezels and rims, engine-turned backs decorated with finely painted, mirror-image polychrome enamel portraits of a lady over translucent Royal blue background, both cases signed with Bovet’s Chinese signature and numbered 330079 and 330084, dials and movements signed with Bovet’s Chinese signature 55.5 mm. diams.

若中英文拍品描述有任何歧義,概以英文版本為準。

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With original fitted presentation box, the cover stamped with Juvet's Chinese signature, containing two spare main springs and one spare crystal.

The present watches are another fine and rare example of a mirror-image pair made for the Chinese market. Although not a pair in the strict sense of the word as the numbers, 330079 and 330084, are neither identical nor consecutive but five digits apart, the watches are evidently from the same series, both stamped with the London date letter for 1865 and featuring the (mirror-image) portrait of the same lady. It can be presumed that one of the watches from the original pair was either lost or irreparably damaged and consequently exchanged by one of the present pieces.

The watches are preserved in very good overall condition, the rarity enhanced by the presence of a fitted box.