The van Cauwenbergh Collection
Hong Kong, Hotel Furama, May 29, 1989
LOT 561
Henry Capt, Genève, circa 1800
HKD 200,000 - 300,000
CHF 40,000 - 60,000
Sold: HKD 230,000
Very fine and extremely rare 18-carat gold musical quarter repeating watch with two automatons. Triple body 'Empire' engine turned case. Small off-set white enamel dial with Roman numerals. Blued steel Breguet hands. The dial plate with an enamel painted landscape, a castle on the left and on the foreground an applied three coloured gold chiselled automaton scene with a lady playing the harp and a young boy drawing her portrait. Gilt brass double train movement with free standing barrel, inverted cylinder escapement with plain five armed steel balance. Musical train with pointed disc and vibrating steel blades, repeating on gongs. In very good condition. Diam. 60 mm.
