The Barking DogJ.D. Piguet & P. Meylan, Geneva, No. 146, enamel attributed to Jean-François-Victor Dupont, circa 1815, made for the Chinese market.Extremely rare and very fine 18K gold, pearl-set, painted on enamel, quarter-repeating "barking dog" automaton watch. Accompanied by a wooden box.

C. Four-body, "Empire", back with very finely painted on enamel scene with a couple on the outskirts of a woodland holding a butterfly, a castle and mountains in the background, protective over-glaze on the top, half pearl-set bezels, champlevé enameled band, gilt matte hinged cuvette with winding and setting apertures, bolt at 2 o'clock to block the pendant, aperture for the sound with a shutter at 6 o'clock, which opens by depressing the pendant. D. Eccentric, set at the top of dark blue transucent enamel engine-turned plate, white enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions. Blued steel Breguet hands. Lower part with applied varicolored gold and silver automaton scene of a dog barking at a swan, which appears to be hissing back, the dog moves its head with each movement of the bellows, all in a wetland with the swan standing on a small piece of grass over water.M. 49 mm. ø, gilt brass half-plate, free-standing barrel, cylinder escapement, steel escape wheel, plain three-arm brass balance, flat balance spring. The repeating barking mechanism with a round bellows and whistle is activated by depressing the pendant.Signed on the cuvette, the movement stamped "P&M" and "145", and scratched on the dial plate "par I. D. Piguet et P. Meylan à Genève" (the barking dog watches by Piguet & Meylan, Nos. 19 and 34, contain identical inscriptions), the cuvette stamped inside with the makers' mark, back panel stamped with casemaker's mark "L.E" in a lozenge.Diam. 59 mm.

Commemorative Auto-matic wrist chronometer with minute-repeaterPatek Philippe & Cie, Genève, "Officier, Répétitions minutes", No. 1904099, case No. 4046664, Ref. 5029. Produced in a limited edition of 10 pieces in pink gold, in 1997 and sold on February 1998.Extremely rare and very fine, self-winding, minute-repeating, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch, with 48 hours autonomy, and an 18K pink gold Patek Philippe buckle. Accompanied by a leather fitted box with winding device, Extract from the Archives, the attestation of the "Bureau Officiel de l'Etat pour le contrôle facultatif des montres de Genève", and a medal commemorating the opening of Patek Philippe's new watchmaking center in Geneva.

C. three-body, solid, polished, hinged back, glazed cuvette, pink gold screwed bars. D. opaline with applied pink gold Breguet numerals and auxiliary seconds dial. "Breguet" pink gold hands.M. Cal. R27PS stamped with the Geneva Quality Hallmark, "rhodium-plated", fausses-côtes decoration, 39 jewels, straight line lever escapement, Gyromax balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, 22K gold micro-rotor, repeating on gong by activating slide on the band.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 35 mm.

Patek, Philippe & Cie., Genève, No. 80897, case No. 204270, made espe-cially in 1890 for Jean de Gradowski.Extremely rare, probably unique, 18K gold Grande Complication keyless astronomical double train Grande et Petite Sonnerie clockwatch with instantaneous perpetual calendar, phases of the moon, Julian and Gregorian calendars, minute repeating and chronograph with central 60-minute recorder, in Patek Philippe leather fitted box, accompanied by the Extract from the Archives.

C. Four-body, solid, "bassine et filets", engine-turned back cover with the engraved coat-of-arms of Gradowski, reeded band, gold hinged cuvette, bolt at 4:30 hours for Grande or Petite Sonnerie, another at 9 for striking/silent, small pin at 3 for adjusting the Julian calendar every 131 years, at 10:30 a bolt for blocking the chronograph and at 2:30 a small tripping slide for repeater activation. D. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions, outermost chronograph scale with fie-seconds/minute Arabic figures, four subsidiary sunk dials for days of the week, months of the four year leap cycle concentric with phases and age of the moon, Gregorian and Julian date and subsidiary seconds. Gold "spade" hands. M. 19''', nickel, "fausses-côtes" decoration, two-train, 38 jewels, straight line calibrated lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, Breguet balance spring, tandem winding, striking and repeating on gongsSigned on dial, case and movement.Diam. 54 mm.