Centuries of Time: A Private Collection
Centuries of Time: A Private Collection
A rare gold and enamel jump hour half-hunting-style cylinder watch made for the Ottoman market Circa 1830, no. 4514
Auction Closed
May 14, 02:23 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 CHF
Lot Details
Description
Swiss
A rare gold and enamel jump hour half-hunting-style cylinder watch made for the Ottoman market
Circa 1830, no. 4514
• Movement: unsigned frosted gilded, cylinder escapement, flat three-arm balance, blued steel regulation arm, standing barrel, gold cuvette decorated with light blue champlevé enamel and translucent pale peach enamel over engine-turning, enamel repairs to edge, apertures for winding and hand-setting
• Dial: white enamel, aperture beneath pendant for jump hours with Turkish numerals, eccentric minute ring, gold minute hand with crescent-form tail, subsidiary seconds with Turkish numerals and blued steel hand
• Case: gold and enamel the front cover decorated with scrolling foliage and flowers heightened in light blue and white champlevé enamel, apertures for hours and seconds, each surrounded by quatrefoils polychrome enamel painted with flowers against a translucent peach enamel ground, case back centred by polychrome enamel seascape with ships in sail, mountains in the background and a graduated translucent enamel sky over sunburst engine-turning, scalloped border of white champlevé enamel, the bezel, pendant and bow decorated en suite with case front, pusher through pendant to release hinged front cover, cover and cuvette numbered 4514, case with some repairs
diameter 48mm