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Geneva, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Du Rhône, Oct 15, 2006

LOT 388

?Flower Bouquets? Allégrone & Emery, a Geneve, No. 886. Made for the Islamic market, circa 1830. Fine and rare, 18K gold, champlevé and painted on enamel hunting-cased quarter-repeating pocket watch.

CHF 6,000 - 8,000

EUR 3,800 - 5,000 / USD 5,000 - 6,500

Sold: CHF 8,850

C. Four-body, ?bassine et filets?, chased bezels, pendant and bow, both covers centered by a rose enamel rosette with scarlet borders, the front cover with a painted flower bouquet, the back with an monogram, outer borders divided into eight segments of alternating rose and green enamel, the green segments decorated with champlevé flowers, the rose segments with painted on enamel flowers. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel, Islamic numerals, outer minute track. Gold Breguet hands. M. 42 mm (18 1/2???), frosted gilt, 8 jewels, cylinder escapement, three-arm gilt balance, flat balance spring, pare-chute on the top pivot, index regulator with bimetallic temperature compensation curb, repeating on gongs activated by pull-and-twist pendant. Cuvette signed. Diam. 51 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 2-01

Very good

HANDS Original

Notes

Provenance: The Maryatt Collection Allégrone & Emery Watchmakers and merchants established rue Rousseau, 56, in the early 19th century. See:?Dictionnaire des horlogers genevois?, by Osvaldo Patrizzi, Antiquorum Editions, Geneva, 1998. Islamic markers There has been some confusion as to the proper name for the type of numerals found on this watch. Sometimes they are referred to as Turkish numerals, sometimes as early Arabic numerals, sometimes as Arabic-Indic numerals. They originated in India and were adopted by the Arabs, who later came to prefer the numerals commonly used in the Occident, which we know as ?Arabic? numerals. However, some Islamic countries, including Turkey, continued to use the original markers instead of or in addition to the "Arabic" ones, as late as the twentieth century. For clarity, we prefer the term ?Islamic? markers.