
Property from an Erudite Collector
A gilt-metal and enamel watch made for the Turkish or Persian market, Circa 1680
Auction Closed
December 6, 09:17 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
· gilded full plate movement, pierced decoration with flowers and foliage overlaying the backplate, verge escapement, plain two-arm flat balance without spring, decoratively pierced and engraved balance cock and foot, fusee and gut line, pierced and engraved pillars, Turkish signature reading ‘Antonel’
· gilded dial highly decoratively pierced and engraved with flowers and foliage against a polished plate, silver chapter ring with Turkish hour numerals infilled with black wax, later added pearls, stylised fleur-de-lys half-hour markers filled with red wax, black quarter hour divisions, turned steel baluster hand
· gilt-metal oval case, the covers symmetrically arranged with lozenges decorated with polychrome enamel painted flowers, gilt metal pendant of stylised Corinthian capital-form, shutter-form aperture for winding to back
Width 44.5mm
Length including pendant (excl. bow) 65mm
Christie’s Geneva, 18 November 1997, The Property of a European Collector, lot 309.