The van Cauwenbergh Collection
Hong Kong, Hotel Furama, May 29, 1989
LOT 559
Jean François Achad, Genève, circa 1795.
HKD 200,000 - 300,000
CHF 40,000 - 60,000
Very fine and rare 20-carat gold and enamel automaton watch, quarter repeating on bells. Double body massive polished case with engraved band. Small white enamel dial with Breguet numerals. ' Spade' blued steel hands. The gold dial plate with an enamel painted fluvial landscape. Applied three coloured gold chiselled automaton cupids, above the dial, striking the bells at will, an automaton watermill and a fisherman on the foreground. Gilt brass full plate movement with conical pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, plain brass three armed balance. Repeating on bells by depressing the pendant. In very good condition. Diam: 56 mm.
