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Property from an Erudite Collector

Antonel

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.