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Geneva, May 10, 2026

LOT 307

AUGUSTIN THOMAS DES VOSGES, FRANCE, MADE FOR DUPONT DE L'EURE QUARTER REPEATER WITH EXPERIMENTAL ESCAPEMENT, 18K YELLOW GOLD

CHF 6,000 - 10,000

HKD 60,000 - 100,000 / USD 7,600 - 12,700 / EUR 6,500 - 10,900 / JPY 1,210,000 - 2,020,000

TO BE SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE

Sold: CHF 18,750

A very fine and very rare, 18k gold, manual wind open-face, key-winding pocket watch. Quarter-repeating on two gongs with two hammers, activated by pressing the pendant, and fitted with a special escapement. White enamel dial with Arabic numerals and blued steel Breguet hands.


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Grading System
Grade:
Case: 3-11

Good

Slightly worn
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-71-01

Good

ENAMEL AND VARIOUS TYPES OF DECORATION Hairlines

HANDS Original

Brand Augustin Thomas des Vosges, France

Year Circa 1820

Case No. 2178

Caliber 47 mm., gilt Lépine calibre movement with standing barrel and special escapement. The escape wheel features an unusual double set of teeth: the long, sun-ray–shaped teeth provide the impulse to the balance wheel, while the small, upright teeth on the rim lock the movement in place. The impulse pallet, a tiny ruby mounted at the centre of the balance staff, is struck by the long teeth of the escape wheel to maintain the watch’s motion. Plain three-arm steel balance with blued steel flat balance spring, index regulator with bimetallic temperature-compensation curb. All-or-nothing repeating mechanism with two hammers striking on the side of the case, activated by depressing the pendant.

Diameter 54 mm.

Signature Dial and case

Notes

Jacques-Charles Dupont de l’Eure (1767–1855) was a French jurist and statesman from the Eure department in Normandy. He began his career as a lawyer at the Parliament of Normandy during the early years of the French Revolution and took part in the country’s political life through its many revolutionary and post-revolutionary changes. In 1848, he became President of the Provisional Governmentof the Second French Republic after the fall of the July Monarchy. A moderate republican, he is remembered as a symbol of justice and balance in a turbulent era.