Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong,the Ritz Carlton Hotel,harbour Room, 3rd Floor, Jun 02, 2007

LOT 166

"Alpine Watermill" George Prior, London, No. 41412. Made for the Islamic market, circa 1810. Fine, 18K gold and painted on enamel, triple-cased pocket watch.

C. Outer: two-body with scalloped edges, glazed back, bezels in light green champlevé enamel with translucent red enamel flower and leaf decoration. Middle: two-body, scalloped edge, back with painted Alpine scene with a watermill on the banks of a stream in the foreground, translucent red border, bezels with opaque azure champlevé enamel with decoration matching the outer case. Inner: two-body, ?bassine'? polished, punched ?AN?. D. White enamel with Islamic numerals, outer minute track, Islamic five-minute numerals. Blued steel "Breguet" hands. M. 23 mm, gilt brass full plate, elaborate pierced vase pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, steel three-arm balance, flat balance spring, one-footed cock pierced and engraved with asymmetrical foliage, rack and pinion regulator with silver plate with Islamic numerals. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Property of an Swiss collector