97th Auction

2018/5/12

Lot 191

Bovet à Fleurier, Case No. 831, 57 mm, 131 g, circa 1835
A pocket watch with jumping centre seconds for the Chinese market
Case: silver. Dial: enamel. Movm.: mirror-polished steel bridge movement, blued main plate, keywind, Chinese duplex escapement, standing barrel, brass/steel balance with 3 screwes and 3 blued weights.
Unusual in a watch created to Chinese taste, this pocket watch neither shows the marvellous enamel painting Bovet’s timepieces are famous for nor is the movement ostentatiously decorated.

Sold

estimated
1.3003.000 €
Price realized
1.900 €