102nd Auction
2020/6/29
Lot 327
Paul Buhré, St. Petersburg, "Purveyor to his Majesty's Court", Case No. 59488, 49 mm, 96 g, circa 1900
A representative hunting case pocket watch in a rose gold case, with applied, polychrome enamelled Russian imperial double headed eagle and matching red morocco case, also with double headed eagle - with matching 14k rose gold watch chain
Case: 14k rose gold. Dial: enamel. Movm.: bridge movement, screw compensation balance.
Paul Buhré took over the watch business from his father - also Paul Buhré - who had established it in 1815 in St Petersburg. He was purveyor to the court of the Russian Tsar and had branches in Moscow. The Buhré family was one of the most important retailers of watches in Russia, importing most of their timepieces from Switzerland. Around 1880 Paul Buhré founded a watch factory in Le Locle under his name, with Swiss watchmaker Paul Othenin-Girard as director of the company. When the company founder retired, Othenin-Girard continued the business together with his brother-in-law, watchmaker Georges Pfund in St Petersburg. During the revolution in 1917 the market in Russia collapsed and Buhré began specialising in deck watches, marine chronometers, chronographs and small pendulum table clocks. In 1963 Buhré was taken over by the DIXI group.
Source: https://watch-wiki.org/index.php?title=Buhr%C3%A9,_Pawel_(Paul), as of 03/10/2017
A representative hunting case pocket watch in a rose gold case, with applied, polychrome enamelled Russian imperial double headed eagle and matching red morocco case, also with double headed eagle - with matching 14k rose gold watch chain
Case: 14k rose gold. Dial: enamel. Movm.: bridge movement, screw compensation balance.
Paul Buhré took over the watch business from his father - also Paul Buhré - who had established it in 1815 in St Petersburg. He was purveyor to the court of the Russian Tsar and had branches in Moscow. The Buhré family was one of the most important retailers of watches in Russia, importing most of their timepieces from Switzerland. Around 1880 Paul Buhré founded a watch factory in Le Locle under his name, with Swiss watchmaker Paul Othenin-Girard as director of the company. When the company founder retired, Othenin-Girard continued the business together with his brother-in-law, watchmaker Georges Pfund in St Petersburg. During the revolution in 1917 the market in Russia collapsed and Buhré began specialising in deck watches, marine chronometers, chronographs and small pendulum table clocks. In 1963 Buhré was taken over by the DIXI group.
Source: https://watch-wiki.org/index.php?title=Buhr%C3%A9,_Pawel_(Paul), as of 03/10/2017
Sold
estimated
2.800—4.000 €
Price realized
3.700 €