The van Cauwenbergh Collection
Hong Kong, Hotel Furama, May 29, 1989
LOT 472
Breguet à Paris, Swiss, circa 1790.
HKD 75,000 - 90,000
CHF 15,000 - 18,000
Sold: HKD 69,000
Fine and unusual 20-carat gold and enamel, very flat pair cased watch. Outer gilt brass tortoiseshell covered case. Double body inner case, the bezel and the edge of the back with a white 'champlevé' enamelled decoration, an enamel painted lake landscape with a couple on the foreground finely painted in the taste of Meissen porcelain, on the enamelled back. White enamel dial with Roman numerals, single blued steel hand. Gilt brass movement, very flat Hessen caliber, cylinder escapement, plain brass three armed balance, polished steel endpiece. In good condition. Diam. 61 mm.
Notes
Unusual alteration after Breguet in order to show the
time with a single hand such as on 'souscription'
watches.