Posted by admin | Posted in BRM Watches | Posted on 31-03-2011
SINGAPORE Swiss watchmakers who are increasingly designing their timepieces to cater to the tastes of a Chinese clientele are emulating a marketing strategy that has been successfully traced ahead.
This period the outcome is a return to the classic elegant of slender and artistic wristwatches. But back in the late 18th and 19th centuries,Girard-Perregaux Haute Horlogerie Watches, Swiss watchmakers were production enameled pocket watches, some with lavish melodious mechanisms, particularly for the Chinese market. Many of those beautiful timepieces are now extremely sought after in the auction chambers.
Commenting on the fast rise in auction amounts, Aurel Bacs, the international head of watches by Christies, said: Depending aboard the type of pocket watches, some have apparently increased 100 percentage in the last pair of years.
According to Vanessa Herrera, head of watches at Sothebys Hong Kong,Louis Vuitton Mahina Clutch, watches made for the Chinese market had several typical characteristics. They were often set with seed pearls on the bezel, she said. There are also bound or hub seconds hands because the Chinese had a predilection for having the seconds hand at the center preferably than at 6 oclock; and the enameled decorations on the behind are very chromatic and active.
Ms. Herrera said the current growth of interest in these watches partly reflected the quest for choice investments following the rise in the amount of gold, and partly a renewed amuse from Chinese collectors in the masterpiece of enameling.
These pieces have a strong decorative value, she said. The pricing is also quite cheap because such pocket watches so for our consumers in Asia it generates quite a stir.
Some of the most sought-after pocket watches are those that have a connection to the Qianlong Emperor, who was an avid collector of western-style clocks, for well as automata and pocket watches.
In 2008, Christies raised $375,000 from the sale of The Imperial Pomegranates, a rare couple of gold, enamel and pearl-set pocket watches, circa 1820, that were made at Piguet & Meylan. The watch set was reputedly given apt Qianlong along the British Royal Family.
Collectors will have an chance to command fjust aboutme exquisite pocket watches over the coming months. Sothebys spring sales in Hong Kong on April 7 will include 40 to 50 pocket watches dating to the early 18th to the early 20th centuries. Many, favor a Bovet Fleurier open face watch, circa 1860, with enamel and jewelry decoration and a center second, would originally have been manufactured for the Chinese market.
Christies Hong Kong will offer in May a very entreating group of pocket watches and enamel pocket watches, Mr. Bacs said.
But the star lot of the Christie’s watch auction will be a pair of matching gold and enamel singing-bird pistols, set with diamonds, agate and pearls, and made for the Chinese market circa 1820. The pair is valued at up to $5 million.
The pistols are attributed to Frères Rochat, most notable for perfecting the highly complex singing bird machinery and placing it in cages,Louis Vuitton Damier Graphite Canvas Keepall 45 Strap, mirrors and, as here, pistols.
Barely a handful of unattached singing bird pistols are understood in the plenary globe entire in classic salons alternatively private accumulations, including the Maurice Sandoz Collection at Le Locle in the west of Switzerland, and the Patek Philippe Museum in Geneva. The Christies attempting is trusted to be the merely known sample of a matching pair.
