UNSIGNED, CIRCA 1800

细节

Swiss. A 14 carat gold and enamel quarter repeating Jaquemart keywound watch
Unsigned, circa 1800
With full plate gilt finished movement, pierced and engraved cock and foot, plain three aram balance, repeating on two gongs, gilt cuvette, the white enamel chapter ring with Roman numerals, blued steel moon-style hands, centred by a varicoloured gilt scene on blued metal background depicting two cherubs in a classical landscape apparently striking the bells in unison with the repeating, in plain case, the reverse centred by a later added multicoloured enamel scene depicting a lady in a landscape, unsigned
57 mm. diam.

拍品专文

This lot and lot numbers 141 and 268 will be sold to benefit the Elemer Hantos Foundation for Central Europe.
Mr Hantos (1880-1942) was an economist at the University of Budapest and also acted as the Austro-Hungarian Empire's last Secretary of State under King Charles IV of Hungary (also referred to as Emperor Charles VI of Austria). He was well-known for his efforts to create a Danubian economic confederation. In his opinion, prosperity lay in general economic cooperation amongst countries. To this end, he established a series of institutes in Budapest, Brno, Geneva and Vienna. Although the association of states he worked so assiduously to secure never came to fruition, the family fortune has now been donated to inaugurate the above mentioned foundation whose purpose will be to further the common economic good of Central Europe.