Swiss gilt and enamel lever for the Chinese market Circa 1880

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Kenmerk
AA0206
Diameter
45 mm
Estimate
€ 4.000 - 7.500
Price sold
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Gilt pocket watch with centre seconds and open face
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A Swiss gilded silver, enamel and half pearl-set open faced lever pocket watch with centre seconds made for the Chinese market, circa 1880.
The case back with a polychrome enamel painting by an unidentified workshop, showing a young couple making an offering on an altar of Love, neoclassical style, on a royal blue background, fluted case band, the pendant, bow and bezel on both sides set with half-pearls. White enamel dial with radial Roman hours, outer minutes track with Arabic fifteen-minute numerals, centre seconds hand and blued pear hands. Gilt-brass movement engraved in Chinese-style, lateral lever escapement, key-winding, going barrel, polished steel monometallic balance with blued steel wings balance and blued steel flat hairspring.
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Diameter: 45 mm
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Signed: No name

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