auction house |
Polgar Auctionhouse |
date of auction |
d-m-Y H:i |
title of auction |
83rd Lord of the time, clock auction |
date of exhibition |
not given |
auction contact |
+36 (1) 267 4077 | aukhaz@polgar-galeria.hu | www.polgar-galeria.hu |
link of auction |
https://axioart.com/aukcio/2009-12-04/83-ido-urai-oraarveres |
668. item
La Maisonette, a gold hunter case pocket watch
14K golden case, Brutto 101, 86 g, 75 x 55 x 11 mm.
Arabic numerals, small subsidiary dial on porcelain face, anchor escapement mechanism, gold crown wound.
Signed case: Switzerland, hallmark applied between 1893-1934, master mark: CC as well as import mark of Pest, applied between 1902-1937.
Case No.: 132572
Signed case, face: La Maisonnette
Able to work, lack of glass cover.
There is a monogram FJ in scripted on cover with the Hungarian Crown, in original leather case.
According to the owner it was the donation of Franz Josef, the ruler of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy for his great-grandfather, Béla Farkasits, Captain of the Hungarian River Navigation Company, commemorating a dangerous cruise on the Lower Danube through the Kazan strait without a licensed pilot in 1910.