The van Cauwenbergh Collection
Hong Kong, Hotel Furama, May 29, 1989
LOT 562
Henry Capt, Genève, circa 1800 (signed on the movement dust rim).
HKD 190,000 - 230,000
CHF 38,000 - 45,000
Sold: HKD 195,500
Fine and rare 18-carat gold and enamel quarter repeating musical watch with three automatons. Double body 'Empire' case with reeded band. Gilt brass cuvette. Small gold off-set dial with Breguet numerals, a roset engraved at the centre. Steel 'spade' hands with blued tips. Gold dial plate with an enamel painted landscape (slightly restored) and below the dial, an applied five coloured chiselled gold automaton scene, depicting a lady playing on the lyra and a Cupid playing the drum, while a dove appears on a bush to feed the female on the nest. Gilt brass full plate double train movement, with cylindrical pillars, cylinder escapement, brass plain three armed balance with diamond endstone, English type cock, partly sunk on an applied gilt brass plate, engraved with scrolls. Musical train with six piled up steel blades and a pointed barrel. In good condition. Diam. 58 mm.
