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拍品专文
With Breguet certificate confirming the present timepiece was sold to his Majesty King Fouad I of Egypt in 1925, this very elegant lady’s wristwatch is an easily identifiable Art Deco design from the mid-1920s.
The extraordinary craftsmanship behind this piece is matched by its exceptional provenance. The green enamel and emerald subtle decoration on the case were carefully selected to remind the green Kingdom of Egypt flag. The band is furthermore enhancing the sharp decoration of this sophisticated watch with a hand-carved floral motif.
King Fouad I
Born in Ciaro in 1868, King Fouad I, father of King Farouk, was the first leader of modern independent Egypt. During his reign (1917-1936) as the ninth sovereign of the line of Mohamed Ali, Egypt changed from its brief status as a sultanate under a British protectorate (and its earlier status, prior to World War I, as a khedivial state nominally subservient to the Ottoman Sultan-Caliph in Istanbul) to become a full-fledged and independent kingdom.
Fouad had played a major role in the establishment of the Cairo University. He was an instrumental force in modern Egyptian historiography, employing numerous archivists to copy, translate, and arrange eighty-seven volumes of correspondence related to his paternal ancestors from European archives, and later to collect old documents from Egyptian archives into what became the Royal Archives in the 1930s.
A regular and faithful client of Breguet, the present timepiece was made for King Fouad I by special order.
The extraordinary craftsmanship behind this piece is matched by its exceptional provenance. The green enamel and emerald subtle decoration on the case were carefully selected to remind the green Kingdom of Egypt flag. The band is furthermore enhancing the sharp decoration of this sophisticated watch with a hand-carved floral motif.
King Fouad I
Born in Ciaro in 1868, King Fouad I, father of King Farouk, was the first leader of modern independent Egypt. During his reign (1917-1936) as the ninth sovereign of the line of Mohamed Ali, Egypt changed from its brief status as a sultanate under a British protectorate (and its earlier status, prior to World War I, as a khedivial state nominally subservient to the Ottoman Sultan-Caliph in Istanbul) to become a full-fledged and independent kingdom.
Fouad had played a major role in the establishment of the Cairo University. He was an instrumental force in modern Egyptian historiography, employing numerous archivists to copy, translate, and arrange eighty-seven volumes of correspondence related to his paternal ancestors from European archives, and later to collect old documents from Egyptian archives into what became the Royal Archives in the 1930s.
A regular and faithful client of Breguet, the present timepiece was made for King Fouad I by special order.