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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 18, 1997

LOT 595

Grayhurst, Harvey & Co, London, No. 4508, made for the Chinese Market, with London hallmarks for 1819. Very fine 18K gold and enamel pearl-set watch.

CHF 12,000 - 14,000

Sold: CHF 13,800

C. Three body, Empire with fixed cuvette, reeded band, split-pearl set bezels pendant and bow, the back panel finely painted with a bouquet of summer flowers against a scarlet flinque enamel, outer pale green champleve enamelled decoration. D. White enamel with Roman numerals and subsidiary seconds. Gold "pear" hands. M. Hinged gilt brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, going barrel, cylinder escapement, plain brass four-arm balance, flat balance spring with regulator, unusual gilt brass skeletonised six-arm cock the foot engraved with scrolled foliage, diamond end-stone. Gilt brass dustcap with cock aperture, finely engraved with scrolled foliage. Signed on the back plate. Diam. 61 mm.


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Case: 1

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Movement: 1

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Dial: 21-51

Period

Partially reprinted

Notes

This watch is very similar to those made by Barraud, Cornhill, in London, some ten years earlier. See Antiquorum Auction catalogue The Art of British Horology, 21 October 1995, lot 97.