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Hotel Noga Hilton, Geneva, Apr 24, 2004

LOT 36

Letter from the Baron de Marinville, to Abraham Louis Breguet, dated from Cassel, January 31, 1810. Marinville is "maître de la garde-robe" of the king of Westphalia, Jerôme Bonarparte. his functions included the charge of the King's watches. He asks Breguet to replace a glass on a watch of the King Jerome which held a portrait and to then pass it on to the jeweler Nitot for further work.