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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 21, 1995
Le Roy à Paris, circa 1780. Fine 18 ct. gold and enamel diamond-set watch.
C.Double body Louis XVI, with diamond set bezels, champlevé enamelled with green blue and red floral decoration, the back centred with an enamel painted with a scene depicting a young man in classic dress, picking the roses with their petals of love (restored), within a rose-diamond set frame. D. White enamel with Roman mimerais and outer Arabic minute ring. Gold Louis XV hands. M. Hinged gilt brass full plate with conical pillars, fusee and chain, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring, gilt brass continental cock with polished steel end-piece. Signed on the dial and back plate. In good condition. Diam. 37 mm.