Important Watches and Wristwatches
Hong Kong, Hotel Furama, May 28, 1989
LOT 114
Henry Capt, Genève, circa 1800 (signed on the movement dust rim). Chia Ch'ing.
HKD 200,000 - 250,000
CHF 40,000 - 50,000
Sold: HKD 161,000
Fine and rare 18-carat gold quarter repeating musical watch with two automatons. Double body 'Empire' case with reeded band and engine turned back. Gilt brass cuvette. Small gold off-set dial with Breguet numerals and engine turned centre. Steel 'spade' hands with blued tips. Gold dial plate with an engraved classical landscape and below the dial, an applied three coloured chiselled gold automaton pastoral scene, depicting a lady playing on the lyra and a shepherd playing the pan pipe. 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.
