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Roosevelt Hotel, Madison Avenue @ 45th Street, Dec 04, 2002

LOT 344

LeCoultre & Cie., Swiss, circa 1900.Very fine and unusual, Art Nouveau, 18K gold and enamel, keyless diamond-set fob watch with matching fob.

C. four-body, "bassine" with matte azure enamel, back with rose in high relief in red enamel with diamond in the center, gold stem with leaves below, diamond-set silver ribbon at the rose stem, gold hinged cuvette. Fob: azure enamel on fleur-de-lis frame with matching in relief red rose with three diamonds in the center and two gold leaves below, swiveling enameled clasp. D. white enamel, blue Breguet numerals. "Louis XV" gold hands.M. 20 mm,( 8'''), frosted gilt, straight line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with blued steel Breguet balance spring.Movement signed.Diam. 25 mm, length with the fob 73 mm.