836 | Jewelry, Watches & Luxury – Highlights
Auction: November 11, 2025
Viewing: November 8 – November 10, 2025, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
A museum-quality, courtly gold and enamel savonette from the estate of Sultan Abdülmecid I.
Auguste Courvoisier & Co. no. 58578. Chaux-de-Fonds, circa 1860.
18kt yellow gold. Enamel. Portrait of the Sultan on the front cover, a view of Constantinople on the back cover.
Original lining with tortoiseshell, as well as a second dial for the Ottoman market.
The pocket watch was a personal gift to the Legation Secretary at the Court of Constantinople, Hippolyt von Bray-Steinhausen, on his departure in 1873 and has been in the family ever since.
Gold and gemstone ladies’ watch from the estate of Marie Caroline Wellenstein-Foulon
Switzerland around 1850/60.
18kt tricolor gold, rubelite and diamond roses.
Marie Caroline Foulon was born in Naples in 1799. At the time, her father Jacque Foulon was the personal physician at the court of Queen Marie-Caroline of Naples. According to family tradition, Marie-Caroline Foulon was an illegitimate child of the Queen from a liaison with Lord Hamilton and was secretly adopted by the personal physician. The little lady’s watch is still owned by the family today.
A fine historical gold and enamel brooch
set with diamonds, emerald and ruby, circa 1870
Private Collection, Hamburg
A pair of Diamond single stone earrings
750 White Gold, each brilliant circa 3ct./H-I, vvs
Expertise Frank Schupp, Pforzheim
A fine gold Savonette pocket watch with 1A Clockwork
A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte I/SA, ca. 1900
A fine Savonette pocket watch with minute repetition
Switzerland, circa 1900
From a South German private collection of pocket watches
Panthère de Cartier Parure comprising a necklace, a bangle and earclisps
France, circa 1980/90, 750 gold, with original boxes
From a South German private collection
A fine pink sapphire, pearl and gold set, comprising a necklace, bracelet and earrings
probably by Ehinger Schwarz, Ulm, circa 1980
From a South German private collection
CARTIER Art-Déco-Brooch
circa 1930, Platinum with diamonds and coloured stone
From a Munich private collection
