Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Hotel Noga Hilton, Oct 16, 2005

LOT 153

?The Shooting Star? Swiss. Made for the Indian market, circa 1890. Very fine, rare and unusual, 18K gold, rose-diamond, pearl and lapis lazuli brooch with automaton rotating stars. Accompanied by the original fitted box.

C. Two-body, circular, each side with a chased bird?s wing set with rose-cut diamonds, bezel set with half-pearls, the centre with two opposing rotating silver and rose-cut diamond set 8-arm stars above a lapis lazuli ground. M. 27 mm., brass, going barrel driving a six-wheel train for the rotating stars activated by a slide in the side of the case. Dim. 76 x 30 mm.