拍品专文
Chevalier & Cochet, active in Geneva between around 1790 and 1820, specialized in the manufacture of complicated timepieces including automaton watches of the highest quality often featuring enamel decoration.
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THE PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT SWISS PRIVATE COLLECTOR
CHEVALIER & COCHET. A FINE, RARE AND ATTRACTIVE 18K PINK GOLD AND ENAMEL OPENFACE À TOC QUARTER REPEATING FIVE AUTOMATON VERGE WATCH
SIGNED CHEVALIER & COCHET, NO. 6582, CIRCA 1795
细节
CHEVALIER & COCHET. A FINE, RARE AND ATTRACTIVE 18K PINK GOLD AND ENAMEL OPENFACE À TOC QUARTER REPEATING FIVE AUTOMATON VERGE WATCH
SIGNED CHEVALIER & COCHET, NO. 6582, CIRCA 1795
MOVEMENT: Manual, Cal. 19’’’, quarter repeating on two hammers either onto a bell or à toc onto the case, chosen by a sliding lever in the band
DIAL: Small white enamel, Breguet numerals, surrounded by an applied vari-coloured gold scene depicting two cherubs striking on two bells suspended from a Chinese Pagoda while lifelike water is running from two sides into a fountain in which a swan is bathing, all in unison with the repeating, champlevé turquoise and black enamel background
CASE: 18k pink gold, repeating through the pendant, 60 mm. diam.
SIGNED: Movement signed Chevalier & Cochet, No. 6582
ACCOMPANIED BY: Key
SIGNED CHEVALIER & COCHET, NO. 6582, CIRCA 1795
MOVEMENT: Manual, Cal. 19’’’, quarter repeating on two hammers either onto a bell or à toc onto the case, chosen by a sliding lever in the band
DIAL: Small white enamel, Breguet numerals, surrounded by an applied vari-coloured gold scene depicting two cherubs striking on two bells suspended from a Chinese Pagoda while lifelike water is running from two sides into a fountain in which a swan is bathing, all in unison with the repeating, champlevé turquoise and black enamel background
CASE: 18k pink gold, repeating through the pendant, 60 mm. diam.
SIGNED: Movement signed Chevalier & Cochet, No. 6582
ACCOMPANIED BY: Key
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Lindi Cheng