DIAMOND BRACELET, 1930S

This lot was acquired in the 1930s by a member of Juvet family, whose ancestor Edouard Juvet had founded a watchmaking workshop in Switzerland in 1842. He soon began to focus on enamel pocket watches for the Chinese market, moving there and setting up several shops in the 1850s. These were greatly popular, prompting Leo Juvet to write in 1872 that “Our watches sell like salt”, perhaps due to the family belief that it was bad luck for a watch to stop, so often they were sold in cases of two.