![A GOLD HALF-HUNTING CASED DOUBLE DIAL MINUTE REPEATING KEYLESS LEVER WATCH WITH MOON PHASES AND TRIPLE CALENDAR CALIBRATED IN CHINESE CIRCA 1900 [ 香港/上海/天津烏利文洋行黃金雙錶盤三問懷錶，備月相及中文全日曆，年份約1900]](https://dam.sothebys.com/dam/image/lot/872482dc-8bd9-4996-937c-12d9740cdae2/primary/extra_small)
Masterworks of Time: Splendours for the East 「時間傑作：西器東傳」
Masterworks of Time: Splendours for the East 「時間傑作：西器東傳」
![View full screen - View 1 of Lot 525. A GOLD HALF-HUNTING CASED DOUBLE DIAL MINUTE REPEATING KEYLESS LEVER WATCH WITH MOON PHASES AND TRIPLE CALENDAR CALIBRATED IN CHINESE CIRCA 1900 [ 香港/上海/天津烏利文洋行黃金雙錶盤三問懷錶，備月相及中文全日曆，年份約1900].](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/9228f62/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x2000+0+0/resize/385x385!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2F9a%2Ff6%2Fa310072f496eb9bb65058a0e9e51%2Fge2024-525-9yb24-web-noreserve.jpg)
J. Ullmann & Cie., Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tientsin
A GOLD HALF-HUNTING CASED DOUBLE DIAL MINUTE REPEATING KEYLESS LEVER WATCH WITH MOON PHASES AND TRIPLE CALENDAR CALIBRATED IN CHINESE CIRCA 1900 [ 香港/上海/天津烏利文洋行黃金雙錶盤三問懷錶，備月相及中文全日曆，年份約1900]
Lot Closed
November 12, 03:26 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 CHF
Lot Details
Description
J. Ullmann & Cie., Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tientsin
A GOLD HALF-HUNTING CASED DOUBLE DIAL MINUTE REPEATING KEYLESS LEVER WATCH WITH MOON PHASES AND TRIPLE CALENDAR CALIBRATED IN CHINESE
CIRCA 1900
[ 香港/上海/天津烏利文洋行黃金雙錶盤三問懷錶，備月相及中文全日曆，年份約1900]
• Movement: 3/4 plate, lever escapement, bi-metallic compensation balance
• Dials: first - white enamel, Roman numerals, outer minute ring, sunken subsidiary seconds, filigree hands, signed J. Ullmann & Co., Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tientsin • second dial - white enamel, two subsidiary dials for day and month, aperture for moon phases, outermost date ring, blued steel hands
• Case: 14ct gold, polished covers, milled band, the front with glazed aperture surrounded by blue enamel Roman numerals and inner minute ring, lever for hand-setting beneath front bezel, correctors for day, date, month, moon phases and regulation arm to back bezel, case with Swiss hallmarks for 14ct gold and numbered 40148, inside back coverwith Ullmann trade mark figure of Britannia standing with shield and lion
diameter 55mm
To view Shipping Calculator, please click here
J. Ullmann & Cie. are listed by K. Pritchard in Swiss Timepiece Makers 1775-1975, p. U-4. Pritchard notes that the Britannia trade mark (as found to the inside back cover of the present watch) was registered by Ullmann in 1896. In addition to their operations in Asia, the firm had representation at La Chaux de Fonds, Fleurier, Paris and Vladivostok. According to Chapuis, Ullmann registered their Chinese brand in 1893 (see: La Montre Chinoise, p. 205).
For a very similar example by Ullmann, see: Sotheby's New York, Fine Watches from The Atwood Collection, 11 December 1986, lot 240.