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Geneva, May 14, 2006

LOT 711

?Snuff Box with Quarter Repeating Watch? Guidon, Rémond, Gide & Compagnie, Geneva. Made between 1792 and 1801. Very fine and very rare, 18K gold, enamel and pearl-set snuff box with built-in quarter repeating watch by Romilly à Paris, No. 331.

CHF 50,000 - 60,000

EUR 32,000 - 38,000 / USD 40,000 - 45,000

C. Rectangular with canted corners, hinged cover, sides and base panels overlaid with Royal blue translucent enamel over zig-zag engine turning, decorated with gold paillon borders, the corners and edges with turquoise and white champlevé enamel decoration and multi-colored paillon borders, hinged and sprung bezel set with split pearls, release button at the edge. D. White enamel with Arabic numerals and outer minute divisions, Arabic quarter-hour numerals, winding aperture at 2. Blued steel ?Breguet? hands. M. 27 mm., hinged gilt brass full plate with conical pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring, continental balance cock with polished steel endplate, silver regulation dial, repeating on a bell activated by a slide above 12 o?clock. Box struck twice with the punch mark of Guidon, Rémond, Gide & Compagnie. Movement signed Romilly a Paris. Dim. 88 x 52 x 26 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-25-01

Good

Chipped

HANDS Original

Notes

This box is struck with the interesting worn mastermark of Guidon, Rémond, Gide & Compagnie in which the ?G? resembles a ?C?. Pieces with this mark are often misattributed to ?Georges Rémond & Company?, a company which never existed. The partnership of Guidon, Rémond, Gide & Compagnie existed between 1792 and 1801. For an article on Jean Georges Remond and his various partnerships see: Antiquorum, Vox Magazine, Summer 2004. Georges Rémond Active from 1783 to 1815-20. Became Master goldsmith on 22 December 1783 and struck his first Master mark. Seven years later he appears to have formed a company: Georges Rémond & Cie., which eventually became, circa 1800, Rémond, Mercier, Lamy & Cie. During the French occupation of Switzerland by Napoleon, J.-G. Rémond recorded marks In 1792, the partners Joseph Guidon, Jean-George Rémond, David Gide, Laurent Guisseling and Jean-Noël Lamy informally began working as Guidon Remond Gide & Co., (the company was officially registered on January 1, 1792). The partners were Jean-George Rémond, Jean-Noël Lamy, Jean Boëhm, (domicilié à Hanau), Denis Blondet, Laurent Guiseling, and Daniel Berton. In 1811, Jean-George Rémond, Jean-Noël Lamy, Laurent Guisseling, Pierre Mercier and Daniel Berton formed a company known as Remond, Lamy, Mercier & Co. "Dictionnaire des Horlogers Genevois" by Osvaldo Patrizzi, Antiquorum Editions, Geneva, 1998.