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Christie’s is honored to present watches from the Maurice and Muriel Fulton Collection. Working closely with some of the most respected art dealers of the day, the Fultons acquired extraordinary modern works by Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Fernand Léger, Alexander Calder, Jean Dubuffet and Sol Lewitt to name a few. Maurice and Muriel met and fell in love while both students at the University of Chicago in 1938. Maurice joined the Navy after graduation and was stationed in the South and Central Pacific and received the Presidential Unit Citation for “outstanding heroism”. He and Muriel married while he was on leave from the war in 1944—after an engagement on the University of Chicago campus at the spot where they first met—the spot where a plaque now sits to commemorate their great love story. The Fultons were generous with their time and philanthropic with organizations they held close to their hearts, becoming vital supporters of the Art Institute of Chicago (where a gallery is named in their honor), Boca Raton Museum of Art, Morikami Museum, Chicago Botanic Garden, The Ravinia Music Festival and their beloved alma mater The University of Chicago where a lecture series on the History of Law is named in their honor.
Anon. A Fine 18k Gold Skeletonized Quarter Repeating Cylinder Watch
Unsigned, Case stamped PHMI 2444, Circa 1830
Details
Anon. A Fine 18k Gold Skeletonized Quarter Repeating Cylinder Watch
Unsigned, Case stamped PHMI 2444, Circa 1830
Skeletonized cylinder movement with finely scroll and foliage engraved bridges, quarter repeating on two hammers, white enamel dial ring, Breguet numerals, circular case, engine-turned back, repeating through the pendant, repeating locking slide in the ribbed band, unsigned
59mm diam.
Unsigned, Case stamped PHMI 2444, Circa 1830
Skeletonized cylinder movement with finely scroll and foliage engraved bridges, quarter repeating on two hammers, white enamel dial ring, Breguet numerals, circular case, engine-turned back, repeating through the pendant, repeating locking slide in the ribbed band, unsigned
59mm diam.
Provenance
Property from the Maurice and Muriel Fulton Collection