Swiss silver gilt duplex watch for Chinese market Circa 1870
- Kenmerk
- TA1493
- Diameter
- 56 mm
- Estimate
- € 25.000 - 50.000
- Price sold
- € 51.000
Silver-gilt with enamel open faced watch
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A very fine and very rare, large Swiss, mirror image pair of silver-gilt, painted on enamel and pearl-set centre seconds pocket watch, circa 1870. With mirror-polished movements and Jacot duplex escapements. The Tiger Hunt by Bovet, Fleurier, the enamel attributed to P. Amédée Champod. Made for the Chinese market.
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The back-painted on enamel with a Hindu horseman on a white horse shooting arrows at a tiger in a jungle clearing, pearl set bezels, pendant and bow. Spring loaded glazed gilt rimmed cuvette. White enamel dial, thin radial Roman numerals, outer minute and seconds divisions and Arabic 15 minute/seconds numerals. Blued steel flower hands. Mirror-polished and blued steel movement, Chinese calibre, nine jewels, free standing barrel, Jacot duplex escapement, bimetallic compensation balance with blued steel winged weights, blued steel flat balance spring, index regulator. Movements signed and also on the case with Chinese characters.
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A very fine and very rare, large Swiss, mirror image pair of silver-gilt, painted on enamel and pearl-set centre seconds pocket watch, circa 1870. With mirror-polished movements and Jacot duplex escapements. The Tiger Hunt by Bovet, Fleurier, the enamel attributed to P. Amédée Champod. Made for the Chinese market.
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The back-painted on enamel with a Hindu horseman on a white horse shooting arrows at a tiger in a jungle clearing, pearl set bezels, pendant and bow. Spring loaded glazed gilt rimmed cuvette. White enamel dial, thin radial Roman numerals, outer minute and seconds divisions and Arabic 15 minute/seconds numerals. Blued steel flower hands. Mirror-polished and blued steel movement, Chinese calibre, nine jewels, free standing barrel, Jacot duplex escapement, bimetallic compensation balance with blued steel winged weights, blued steel flat balance spring, index regulator. Movements signed and also on the case with Chinese characters.
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Diameter: 56 mm
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Signed: Bovet Fleurier
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Champod was one of the most celebrated enamel painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, specializing in hunting scenes. In his autobiography, which has been preserved by his descendants, he writes that he wanted to be a painter of large format scenes, but that economic realities led him to paint on enamel. He studied with Huguenin, Sauerländer, and Charles Glardon, who strongly impacted his future style. Champod dropped out of school at eleven and at sixteen began working. At the Paris Exhibition of 1900, Champod received a silver medal. His technique was outstanding, the sense of dynamics in his compositions was unrivalled. This type of watch rarely survives in pairs, they are in remarkably good condition and are excellent examples illustrating the popularity of Indian scenes in China, where the tiger is a symbol of wealth and traditional Chinese reserve.
Diameter: 56 mm
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Signed: Bovet Fleurier
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Champod was one of the most celebrated enamel painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, specializing in hunting scenes. In his autobiography, which has been preserved by his descendants, he writes that he wanted to be a painter of large format scenes, but that economic realities led him to paint on enamel. He studied with Huguenin, Sauerländer, and Charles Glardon, who strongly impacted his future style. Champod dropped out of school at eleven and at sixteen began working. At the Paris Exhibition of 1900, Champod received a silver medal. His technique was outstanding, the sense of dynamics in his compositions was unrivalled. This type of watch rarely survives in pairs, they are in remarkably good condition and are excellent examples illustrating the popularity of Indian scenes in China, where the tiger is a symbol of wealth and traditional Chinese reserve.
Signed: Bovet Fleurier
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