Dear watch aficionado.
When I first took a look at the Sotheby's catalogue of their upcoming Hong Kong auction on April 24th (lot 2256, 2257, 2258, 2259, 2260), my heart almost stopped beating when I saw that they have these five absolutely stunning and impressive Qing Dynasty clocks from the Nezu museum up for sale.
Now a days, a timepiece from the modern era of industrial and computerized production is very fast described as a museum grade timepiece. But, what should these five masterworks of art crafted in the late 18th century be described then? The thousands of hours of pure craftsmanship and skill to design and produce each one of these clocks are just unimaginable. Take a look at the fine details of the guilloché and émail works, the engravings and automatons, just simply breathtaking and really really stunning!
With these five clocks, every serious collector could put hers or his collection to a total different level. Or maybe a collector who is probably a newcomer in the collecting of watches and mostly bought modern pieces, like Mark Zuckerberg, could instantly put his collection to a totally new level and enter at one hit a different universe of collecting museum grade masterworks.
Herewith I show you the video from Sotheby's in which Sam introduces these five clocks:
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*photo credit is at Sotheby's
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Kind regards.
Christian
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