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Hotel Richemond, Geneva, Oct 13, 2001
LOT 597
La Forge de Cupidon"Breguet", No. 8065, Swiss, circa 1800.Very fine 18K gold and enamel double-train automaton watch.
CHF 25,000 - 30,000
USD 15,500 - 18,200
Sold: CHF 29,900
C. Double-body, "Directoire", polished, the bezel hinged to the movement ring. Hinged gilt brass cuvette. D. Small eccentric, white enamel with Breguet numerals. Gold "spade" hands. The enamel dial plate, with champlevé flower garlands on each side of the dial over a blue ground, is painted with a country landscape below and applied with a very fine varicolored gold automaton scene depicting three cherubs busily working at a forge: one is forging arrows for Venus while another sharpens the arrowand the third tends to the fire. M. 35,6 mm, gilt brass double-train, Lepine caliber with free-standing barrel, the bridges engraved with foliate decoration, cylinder escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance-spring with regulator. The automaton train built like Lepine repeating train with cams and levers in place of repeating work.Signed on the cuvette.Diam. 56 mm.
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Grade: AAA |
Excellent |
Case: 3 - 6 |
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Movement: 3 - 5 - 6* |
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Dial: 3 - 01 |