836 | Jewelry, Watches & Luxury – Highlights
Auction: November 5, 2025
Viewing: November 1 – November 3, 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. Enamelled. Portrait of the Sultan on the front lid, a view of Constantinople on the back lid.
Original lining with tortoiseshell, as well as a second dial for the Ottoman market.
The pocket watch was a personal gift to Hippolyt von Bray-Steinhausen, Legation Secretary at the Court of Constantinople, on his retirement in 1873 and has been in the family ever since.
Gold and gemstone ladies’ watch from the estate of Marie Caroline Wellenstein-Foulon
Switzerland, circa 1850/60.
18ct tricolour gold, rubelite and diamond roses.
Marie Caroline Foulon was born in Naples in 1799; her father Jacque Foulon was the personal physician at the court of Queen Marie-Caroline of Naples at the time. 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.
