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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 21, 1995
LOT 483
Barrwaiss, London, Swiss, made for the English market, circa 1790. Extremelly fine and rare 18 ct. gold, quarter repeating self winding watch.
CHF 30,000 - 35,000
C. Three body, engine-turned. Hinged gilt brass cuvette. D. White enamel with radial Arabic numerals. Blued steel "arrow" hands. M. Gilt brass full plate with cylinder pillars, going barrel, cylinder escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring with regulator. The shaped platinum winding weight, pivoted on the back plate border lias steel banking springs at its base. Signed on the dial and cuvette. In very good condition.
Notes
Self winding watches of this period fitted with
repeating mechanism are extremelly rare.
The movement of this watch is almost identical to
that, from the Museum of the Ecole d'Horlogerie in
Le Locle (Switzerland), illustrated by A. Chapuis
and E. Jaquet in La montre automatique ancienne,
Neuchâtel 1952, fig 106, p. 106.
This watch was certainly made in Switzerland for
the English Market, it was therefore signed with the
narre of an English maker. It is amusing to point
out the apocryphal signature is wrongly spelt