FINE WATCHES, WRISTWATCHES & CLOCKS Wednesday June 6, 2018 New York FINE WATCHES, WRISTWATCHES & CLOCKS WRISTWATCHES FINE WATCHES, | New York | Wednesday June 6, 2018 | Wednesday | New York 24662 FINE WATCHES, WRISTWATCHES & CLOCKS Wednesday June 6, 2018 at 1pm New York BONHAMS BIDS INQUIRIES ILLUSTRATIONS 580 Madison Avenue +1 (212) 644 9001 Jonathan Snellenburg Front cover: Lot 64 New York, New York 10022 +1 (212) 644 9009 fax Director Inside front cover: Lot 42 bonhams.com [email protected] +1 (212) 461 6530 Inside back cover: Lot 62 [email protected] Back cover: Lot 74 PREVIEW To bid via the internet please visit Misha Sylver Friday June 1, 10am - 5pm www.bonhams.com/24662 Administrator Saturday June 2, 12pm - 5pm +1 (917) 206 1614 Sunday June 3, 12pm - 5pm Please note that bids should be +1 (212) 644 9009 (fax) Monday June 4, 10pm - 5pm summited no later than 24hrs prior [email protected] Tuesday June 5, 10am - 5pm to the sale. New Bidders must also provide proof of identity when London Clocks submitting bids. Failure to do this James Stratton 24662 may result in your bid not being Director SALE NUMBER: +44 (0) 20 7468 8364 Lots 1 - 74 processed. [email protected] CATALOG: $35 LIVE ONLINE BIDDING IS London Watches AVAILABLE FOR THIS SALE Jonathan Darracott Please email bids.us@bonhams. Group Head com with “Live bidding” in the +44 (0) 20 7447 7412 subject line 48hrs before the [email protected] auction to register for this service. Bidding by telephone will only be accepted on a lot with a lower estimate in excess of $1000 FOR Please see pages 67 to 69 for bidder information including Conditions of Sale, after-sale CHECKING collection and shipment. © 2018 Bonhams & Butterfields Auctioneers Corp. All rights reserved. Principal Auctioneer: Matthew Girling, NYC License No. 1236798-DCA Property of Various Owners 1 LONGINES. AN 18K GOLD HUNTER CASED MEDICAL CHRONOGRAPH Date: Circa 1920 Movement: Nickel finished Cal. 19.73N manual winding movement with single button column wheel chronograph train, bimetallic balance with overcoiled spring, lever set, no. 2976460 Dial: White enamel, pulse and fifth second scales enclosing arabic chapters, subsidiary dials for continuous seconds and 30-minute register, gold hands, blued sweep and register hands Case: Plain polished with elaborate monogram, chronograph button in band at 12 o’clock, gold cuvette, no. 2976784 Signed: Case, dial and movement Size: 53mm 1 $2,500 - 3,500 2 SWISS. AN 18K GOLD ENGRAVED HUNTER CASED DOUBLE DIAL CALENDAR WATCH WITH MOON PHASE FOR THE SPANISH MARKET Date: Last quarter 19th century Movement: Nickel finished bridge pattern, manual winding, jeweled through the third wheel, counterpoised lever escapement, bimetallic balance, overcoiled spring, lever set Dial: Silver enhanced with gilt garlands, roman chapters, central aperture for moon phase, subsidiary seconds, blued hands, second rear dial a hinged calendar plate with concentric adjustable day and date rings and month aperture, enclosing engraved Spanish Royal coat of arms, blued indicating hand, no. 98182 Case: Both lids engraved with leafy garland surrounding decorative cartouche, no. 98182 Size: 52mm $2,000 - 3,000 2 2 | BONHAMS 3 JACOB VAN DER CLOESEN, LEIDEN. A FINE AND RARE GOLD PAIR CASE QUARTER REPEATING WATCH WITH REPOUSSÉ OUTER CASE BY DAVID DUPONT Date: circa 1740 Movement: Gilt full plate with fusee and verge escapement, tapered baluster pillars, scroll pierced cock engraved with shell and grotesque mask, repeating with two hammers on bell by depressing pendant, signed gilt dust cap Dial: White enamel, roman chapters within arcaded arabic minute ring, pierced gilt hands Case: Inner pierced and finely engraved with scrolls, struck twice with incuse mark SG, fish above for the London case maker Stephen Goujon; outer signed D. DuPont fc. depicting the wedding feast at Cana within a symmetrical scroll cartouche chased between with portrait busts of Mary, Jesus and the bride and groom Size: 50mm $4,000 - 6,000 The present watch is an example of the close ties between English and Dutch watchmakers during the 18th century. The chaser David Dupont (b. 1712) was a Huguenot from Amsterdam who emigrated to London. Edgcumbe records several London watches with Dupont cases and illustrates another repeating watch by Jacob van der Cloesen,in the collection of the British Museum, with a variant of the same scene by Dupont, the inner case also by Stephen Goujon . See: Edgcumbe, Richard. The Art of the Gold Chaser in Eighteenth Century London. Oxford (2000), pp 42-44, figs 19a – 19f. The Hague maker Bernard van der Cloesen (d. 1736) and his son Jacob (1692 -1767) were prominent Dutch clock makers working in the English style. Bernard came to Leiden in 1710 to refurbish a monumental clockwork Copernican planetarium known as the “Leiden Sphera” that has been constructed about 1670 by the Englishman Stephen Tracy. Jacob remained in Leiden and, in 1721, was appointed the city Clockmaker. From 1719 to 1750 he was the keeper of the tower clock at the Leiden University. In 1728 Jacob succeeded his father as keeper of the Leiden Sphera. He held this position until he was, in turn, succeeded by his son Bernard Jr. in 1753. Still active, Jacob constructed a precision clock for the University in 1757. The planetarium was an important showpiece for visitors to the library of the University well into the 19th century. In 1931 it was given to 3 the Museum Boerhaave in Leiden where it remains today. FINE WATCHES, WRISTWATCHES & CLOCKS | 3 4 CHARLES QUENOVAULT. A GOLD PAIR CASE VERGE WATCH Date: inner case hallmarked London, 1728 Movement: Gilt full plate, fusee, baluster pillars, scroll pierced cock with mask, no. 503 Dial: gold with roman and arabic numerals on matted ground, blued beetle and poker hands Case: outer and inner plain, case maker’s mark SG, fish above, for Stephen Goujon, no. 503, later replaced pendant Signed: dial and movement Size: 51mm $1,200 - 1,800 4 5 A FINE JEWELED AND ENAMELED GOLD SHELL-FORM WATCH PENDANT Date: late 19th century Movement: Gilt bridge caliber jeweled to the center, lever escapement, bimetallic balance with flat spring, stem wound, pin set Dial: White enamel, black roman chapters, red arabic minutes, gold hands Case: Stylized scallop shell enhanced with enamel panels and set with seed pearls and cabochon rubies and emeralds and rose-cut diamonds, opening to reveal a concealed watch, suspended by a short chain from a similarly enameled and jeweled scroll-form brooch Size: 28mm width of shell $4,000 - 6,000 5 4 | BONHAMS 6 7 TIFFANY & CO. A GOLD UNITED STATES $20 COIN WITH CARTIER. A GOLD PENDANT WATCH WITHIN AN 1858 50 CONCEALED 18K GOLD WATCH FRANC FRENCH COIN Date: mid-20th century Signed by European Watch and Clock Co. Movement: Universal Genève 17- jewel manual winding adjusted to Reference: 05045 position, monometallic balance Date: mid 20th century Dial: Brushed champagne with printed baton hour markers, black Movement: Manual winding jeweled lever hands Dial: Silvered, roman chapters, blued hands Case: 1904 Liberty Head coin with concealed push piece in band Case: Coin opening to reveal watch secured by hinge opening hinged lid to reveal watch case, no. 66361 / CG 9960-1 Signed: by Cartier on dial, Case signed E. W. & C. Co., Inc., France Signed: by Tiffany on dial; by Universal Genève on dial and Size: 29mm movement Accompaniments: Leather pouch (worn) Size: 34mm Accompaniments: Fitted black suede case (worn) $4,000 - 6,000 $3,000 - 5,000 7 6 FINE WATCHES, WRISTWATCHES & CLOCKS | 5 8 8 PATEK PHILIPPE. A FINE ENAMELED 18K GOLD “DAY AND Several examples of this case are recorded including one of 1868, NIGHT” HUNTER CASED FOB WATCH AFTER SCULPTURES illustrated in Huber and Banbery Patek Philippe, figs, 38-a,b,c. BY ALBERT BERTEL THORVALDSEN Date: dated 1872 on cuvette The Danish Neoclassical sculptor Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770- Movement: Gilt 17-jewel bridge pattern, lever escapement, 1844), sometimes referred to as the Danish Canova, spent most of moustache counterpoise, bimetallic balance, flat spring, stem wound his working life in Rome. and set with wolf’s tooth gearing, no. 38646 Dial: White enamel, pale blue chapter ring with black roman According to Rosenblum and Janson, “he became Rome’s most numerals enclosing subsidiary seconds and decorative rosette, blued admired artist ... his studio, with its display of original plasters, was Breguet hands a pilgrimage goal for countless prominent visitors as well as aspiring Case: Chased 18K gold, the lids with finely painted enamel allegories artists.” Thorvaldsen produced more than 90 freestanding sculptures, of Night and /day after Bertel Thorvaldsen, signed and dated gold over 150 portrait busts, and some 300 reliefs in marble and bronze. cuvette, no. 38646 Size: 41mm He created the pair of marble reliefs “Night” and “Day” in 1815. Extremely popular as a decorative motif, the designs were $10,000 - 15,000 reproduced throughout the 19th century. A bronze copy of Thorvaldsen’s 1839 self-portrait, placed in Central Park NY in the 1890’s, remains today near 96th Street and Fifth Avenue. His “Night and Day” adorns the pedestal. (forgottendelights. com/thorvaldsen.html) 6 | BONHAMS 9 ROLEX. AN 18K GOLD AUTOMATIC CENTER SECONDS DUAL TIME WRISTWATCH WITH DATE Model: GMT - Master Reference: 1675 Date: Circa 1969 Movement: 26-jewel Cal. 1570 self-winding Dial: Brown, applied gold triangular, baton and dot numerals, gold Mercedes hour hand, arrow hand for second time zone, all with luminous fill, gold sweep hand, date aperture at 3 o’clock Case: Tonneau with screw down crown and back, rotating brown 24-hour bezel Strap/Bracelet: Associated leather Buckle/Clasp: Gilt pin buckle Signed: Case, dial and movement Size: 39.5mm $18,000 - 20,000 9 10 EBEL.