Unique Swiss gold duplex made for the Chinese market Circa 1860
- Kenmerk
- TA4629
- Diameter
- 56 mm
- Estimate
- € 30.000 - 60.000
- Price sold
- € 63.250
Gold center seconds pocket watch
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An unique Swiss, 18 carat gold, champlevé and painted on enamel pocket watch, circa 1860. Titus & Berenice by Juvet, watch with duplex escapement and center seconds. Made for the Chinese market. An Empire case, the bezel decorated with translucent red enamel and white enamel flower heads with blue centres, intersected by blue rui heads, pendant and bow decorated with blue and white champlevé enamel, the back with a painted on enamel panel depicting Titus and Berenice in a garden by an altar and urn garlanded with roses, translucent red guilloché enamel ground, the border decorated to match the bezel. Hinged gold cuvette with engraved decoration. White enamel dial with radial Roman numerals, outer minute and seconds divisions, Arabic 15 minute numerals and gilt ovoid hands. Gilded brass movement, engraved with flowers and foliage, standing barrel, five arm polished steel balance, jewelled duplex escapement, flat balance spring, index regulator. Movement signed.
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Diameter: 56 mm
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An unique Swiss, 18 carat gold, champlevé and painted on enamel pocket watch, circa 1860. Titus & Berenice by Juvet, watch with duplex escapement and center seconds. Made for the Chinese market. An Empire case, the bezel decorated with translucent red enamel and white enamel flower heads with blue centres, intersected by blue rui heads, pendant and bow decorated with blue and white champlevé enamel, the back with a painted on enamel panel depicting Titus and Berenice in a garden by an altar and urn garlanded with roses, translucent red guilloché enamel ground, the border decorated to match the bezel. Hinged gold cuvette with engraved decoration. White enamel dial with radial Roman numerals, outer minute and seconds divisions, Arabic 15 minute numerals and gilt ovoid hands. Gilded brass movement, engraved with flowers and foliage, standing barrel, five arm polished steel balance, jewelled duplex escapement, flat balance spring, index regulator. Movement signed.
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Diameter: 56 mm
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Signed: Edouard Juvet Fleurier
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Titus and Berenice Titus, the elder son of Emperor Vespasian, was born in AD 39. From AD 61 to 63 he served in Germany and Britain as a military tribune. He then returned to Rome and married Arrecina Tertulla, the daughter of a former commander of the Praetorian guard. A year later Arrecina died and Titus married Maria Furnilla. She was from a distinguished family which had connections to opponents of Nero. After the failure of the Pisonian conspiracy, Titus thought it best not to be connected in any way with any potential plotters and hence divorced Marcia in AD 65. The same year Titus was appointed quaestor and became commander of one of his father’s three legions in Judea in AD 67 (XV Legion ‘Apollinaris’).
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A serious threat to Titus’ succession was his affair with the Jewish princess Berenice, ten years his senior, beautiful and with powerful connections in Rome. She was the daughter (or sister) of the Jewish king, Herod Agrippa II, and Titus called her to Rome in AD 75. As he had divorced his second wife Marcia Furnilla in AD 65, Titus was free to remarry. And for a while, Berenice lived openly with Titus in the palace. But the pressure of public opinion, mixed with anti-Semitism and xenophobia, forced them apart. There was even talk of her being a “new Cleopatra”. Rome was not prepared to tolerate an eastern woman close to power and so Berenice had to return home. The scene depicted on the present watch shows Berenice parting from Titus. Edouard & Leo Juvet One of the important Swiss horological families working for the Chinese market.
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Edouard Juvet (1820-1883) was first established in Buttes in 1842, but in 1844 moved his workshop to Fleurier. He began making “Chinese” watches in 1856. Edouard’s sons Ami-Louis and Léo travelled to China to work in the family firm. When Ami-Louis died there, Leo Juvet (1848-1891) took his place. In Shanghai, the Juvets were rivalled only by the Bovets, yet the two families maintained friendly relations. The Maison Juvet prospered, opening branches in Tien-Tsin and Saigon, to the extent that in 1872 Léo wrote: “Our watches sell like salt”. In 1873, Edouard Juvet registered a trademark in Chinese characters, which was often used on the company’s products. He granted his son Léo power of attorney in November 1875, and after his death in February 1883, Léo succeeded him as the head of the firm. A very similar watch, one of a pair was part of the Lord Sandberg.
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Titus and Berenice Titus, the elder son of Emperor Vespasian, was born in AD 39. From AD 61 to 63 he served in Germany and Britain as a military tribune. He then returned to Rome and married Arrecina Tertulla, the daughter of a former commander of the Praetorian guard. A year later Arrecina died and Titus married Maria Furnilla. She was from a distinguished family which had connections to opponents of Nero. After the failure of the Pisonian conspiracy, Titus thought it best not to be connected in any way with any potential plotters and hence divorced Marcia in AD 65. The same year Titus was appointed quaestor and became commander of one of his father’s three legions in Judea in AD 67 (XV Legion ‘Apollinaris’).
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A serious threat to Titus’ succession was his affair with the Jewish princess Berenice, ten years his senior, beautiful and with powerful connections in Rome. She was the daughter (or sister) of the Jewish king, Herod Agrippa II, and Titus called her to Rome in AD 75. As he had divorced his second wife Marcia Furnilla in AD 65, Titus was free to remarry. And for a while, Berenice lived openly with Titus in the palace. But the pressure of public opinion, mixed with anti-Semitism and xenophobia, forced them apart. There was even talk of her being a “new Cleopatra”. Rome was not prepared to tolerate an eastern woman close to power and so Berenice had to return home. The scene depicted on the present watch shows Berenice parting from Titus. Edouard & Leo Juvet One of the important Swiss horological families working for the Chinese market.
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Edouard Juvet (1820-1883) was first established in Buttes in 1842, but in 1844 moved his workshop to Fleurier. He began making “Chinese” watches in 1856. Edouard’s sons Ami-Louis and Léo travelled to China to work in the family firm. When Ami-Louis died there, Leo Juvet (1848-1891) took his place. In Shanghai, the Juvets were rivalled only by the Bovets, yet the two families maintained friendly relations. The Maison Juvet prospered, opening branches in Tien-Tsin and Saigon, to the extent that in 1872 Léo wrote: “Our watches sell like salt”. In 1873, Edouard Juvet registered a trademark in Chinese characters, which was often used on the company’s products. He granted his son Léo power of attorney in November 1875, and after his death in February 1883, Léo succeeded him as the head of the firm. A very similar watch, one of a pair was part of the Lord Sandberg.
Signed: Edouard Juvet Fleurier
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