Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces · 10 May 2015

ERWIN KLEIN FOR VACHERON CONSTANTIN HARDSTONE SCULPTURE "KINGFISHER" Erwin Klein for Vacheron

ERWIN KLEIN FOR VACHERON CONSTANTIN HARDSTONE SCULPTURE "KINGFISHER" Erwin Klein for Vacheron Constantin, Genève. Made in the 1980s. Fine gold, lapis-lazuli, opal, black onyx and pyrite quartz kingfisher sculpture. Accompanied by a fitted box. Realistically modeled kingfisher with lapis-lazuli body, black onyx beak and gold collet-set ruby eyes, opal tongue and fish in the beak, gold feet on a natural pyrite quartz crystal base and oval black onyx gold-rimmed base. Signed on a gold disc set into

Lot

Antiquorum, May 2015

Hammer result

CHF 9,375

about $10,109 at today's rate

Beat the high estimate by 70%
Low estimate CHF 3,500
High estimate CHF 5,500
In USD $3,774 to $5,931

The lot

Auction house

Antiquorum

Sale

Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Date

10 May 2015

Lot number

372

Year

1985

Accompanied by

box

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