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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 21, 1995
LOT 659
Jean Moilliet, London, circa 1700. Fine silver pair cased watch with alarm.
CHF 6,500 - 7,500
C. Outer double body, the bezel pierced and engraved with inhabited foliage, the back centred with the figure of a warrior within a scallop frame chased with formai decoration, the border pierced and engraved with inhabited foliage and with four alternated profile portraits in the Antique style and paim-leaf motifs. Double body inner, bassine with split bezel, the band pierced and engraved with inhabited foliage. D. Silver champlevé with Roman numerals and inner alarm setting disc. Later blued steel single hand and pointer. M. Hinged gilt brass full plate with Egyptian pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement with plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring and English gilt brass cock pierced and engraved with inhabited foliage. Alarm train with gilt brass fixed barren engraved with scrolling foliage, striking on a bell. Signed on the back plate. In very good condition. Diam. 60 mm.
