Not signed, with Paris halhnarks for 1768. Fine 18 ct. gold and enamel, diamond-set dumb quarter repeating watch with matching chatelaine. | Important Collectors Wristwatches Pocket Watches & Clocks | Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, 21st October 1995

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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 21, 1995

LOT 676

Not signed, with Paris halhnarks for 1768. Fine 18 ct. gold and enamel, diamond-set dumb quarter repeating watch with matching chatelaine.

CHF 18,000 - 22,000

C. Double body, Louis XV, with diamond-set thumb piece, bezel, pendant and bow, bezels chased with foliage, the back set with a fine enamel panel painted with a bunch of flowers in a diamond-set frame, outer chased wreath of foliage and ribbon knot. Four element matching gold chatelaine set with four small enamel panels painter with flowers and chased with foliage, gold key and seal. D. White enamel, custom made, early 19th Century with Arabic numerals. Gold diamond-set "fleurs-de-lys" hands. M. Hinged gilt brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring, gilt brass continental cock with polished steel end-piece. Repeating on a block in the case by depressing the pendant. In very good condition. Diam. 39 mm.

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French enamel watches from this period are fairly rare, even more so with a matching chatelaine and most were imported from Switzerland. Due to the quality of this watch, it was "modernised" at the beginning of the 19th Century with a new dial with Arabic numerals, then more in fashion.