Masterworks of Time: Splendours for the East 「時間傑作：西器東傳」

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 519. A GOLD AND ENAMEL DOUBLE DIALLED ASTRONOMICAL WORLD TIME WATCH WITH 24 WORLD LOCATIONS AND THEIR LATITUDE, CALENDAR AND MOON PHASES CIRCA 1790 [ 瑞士製黃金畫琺瑯雙錶盤世界時間天文懷錶，備24個地方時間及緯度、日曆及月相顯示，年份約1790].

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A GOLD AND ENAMEL DOUBLE DIALLED ASTRONOMICAL WORLD TIME WATCH WITH 24 WORLD LOCATIONS AND THEIR LATITUDE, CALENDAR AND MOON PHASES CIRCA 1790 [ 瑞士製黃金畫琺瑯雙錶盤世界時間天文懷錶，備24個地方時間及緯度、日曆及月相顯示，年份約1790]

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November 12, 03:20 PM GMT

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A GOLD AND ENAMEL DOUBLE DIALLED ASTRONOMICAL WORLD TIME WATCH WITH 24 WORLD LOCATIONS AND THEIR LATITUDE, CALENDAR AND MOON PHASES

CIRCA 1790

[ 瑞士製黃金畫琺瑯雙錶盤世界時間天文懷錶，備24個地方時間及緯度、日曆及月相顯示，年份約1790]

Movement: unsigned gilded, verge escapement, plain cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain

Dials: front - white enamel with black Roman numerals for 24-hours running twice from I-XII, outer minutes, inner rings calibrated for month with corresponding polychrome enamel painted signs of the zodiac, inner date ring, central blue enamel roundel for moon phases heightened with gold stars, winding aperture at 3 • Second - white enamel, blue chapter ring with Arabic numerals for 24-hours running twice from 1-12, the centre with large gold disc in the form of a blazing sun with 24 points each engraved with a world location and its corresponding point of latitude North or South

Case: gold case, bezels engraved with foliage, pendant stamped 18k and numbered 9260 with initials ILR and with F in a square cartouche

diameter 56mm

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An almost identical double dialled watch may be found at the Patek Philippe Museum, Geneva, inv. S-754; the latter watch is illustrated in P. Friess, The Emergence of the Portable Watch, Patek Philippe Museum, Vol. IV, p.230.