CHAMPION. A VERY FINE AND RARE 22K GOLD, AGATE, ENAMEL AND GEM-SET QUARTER REPEATING PAIR CASE WATCH, MADE FOR THE CHINESE MARKET

SIGNED JN CHAMPION, LONDON, NO. 1981, CIRCA 1770

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CHAMPION. A VERY FINE AND RARE 22K GOLD, AGATE, ENAMEL AND GEM-SET QUARTER REPEATING PAIR CASE WATCH, MADE FOR THE CHINESE MARKET
Signed Jn Champion, London, No. 1981, circa 1770
With gilt-finished chain fusée movement, verge escapement, finely pierced and engraved cock and foot, repeating on a bell, gilt dust cap, the white enamel dial with Chinese numerals, outer ring with five minute divisions, blued steel beetle and poker hands, the inner gold case with finely pierced band engraved with a house, tree and the portrait of a gentleman, the plain back centred by an engraved flower, the repoussé outer gold case inset with agate panels, interspersed with diamond, emerald and ruby flowers over red guilloché enamel panels, diamond-set thumb piece, repeating through the pendant, movement and dust cap signed and numbered, inner case numbered
47 mm. diam.

Lot Essay

US$20,000-30,000

PROVENANCE:
"The Sandberg Watch Collection", Antiquorum Geneva, 31 March and 1 April 2001, Lot 83.

LITERATURE:
The Sandberg Watch Collection, published in 1998 by Antiquorum, p. 242-243.

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