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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 12, 1996
LOT 594
Coladon a Geneve, circa 1810. Very fine and unusual 18K gold and enamel, pearl-set watch with an automaton scene.
CHF 50,000 - 55,000
C. Double body, Empire with glazed back, polished band and split-pearl set bezels. D. White enamel with Breguet numerals and small semicircular sector for the regulator. Gold "pear" hands. M. Hinged inverted gilt brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee with chain, cylinder escapement with brass escape wheel, the plain brass three-arm balance with flat balance spring and ruby end-stone beneath the dial. Driven by a repeating mechanism without repeating work and set in motion by depressing the pendant, the multicoloured god automaton scene, on the back plate, with a water-mill, a fisher-man and two pit-sawers on the foreground, is applied on a fine painted enamel landscape with a river, the water-mill on the right. Signed on the dial. In very good condition. Diam. 54 mm.
