The Mondani Collection of Rolex Wrist...

Geneva, May 14, 2006

LOT 609

?Quarter Repeating à Toc? Dufalga, Genève. Made circa 1750. Very fine and rare, vari-colored gold and rose cut diamond-set pocket watch with dumb quarter repeat.

CHF 6,000 - 8,000

EUR 3,800 - 5,000 / USD 4,600 - 6,000

C. Two-body, "Louis XV", vari-colored, the back decorated with a scene of a shepherdess and sheep with a seated gentleman playing the pipes within a landscape, scroll and leaf border, diamond-set bezel and thumb-piece. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and Arabic five minute numerals. Rose diamond set hands. M. 33 mm., hinged gilt brass, full plate with tapered pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement with plain threearm steel balance, flat balance spring, pierced and foliate chased continental type balance cock with polished steel end-piece, silver regulation dial with blued steel hand, repeating on the case activated by depressing the pendant. Movement signed. Diam. 44 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3-15

Good

Slightly rusted
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-24-01

Good

Slightly chipped

HANDS Original

Notes

Dufalga A watchmaker of the second half of the 18th century, he specialized in watches whose cases were decorated with painted on enamel and champlevé enamel scenes, and chatelaine watches. See: Dictionnaire des horlogers genevois, Osvaldo Patrizzi, Antiquorum Editions, 1998.