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.
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
1.300—3.000 €
Price realized
1.900 €