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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 21, 1995
LOT 678
Phe. Terrot & Fazy, circa 1780. Fine 18 ct. gold and enamel paste-set skeleton watch.
CHF 3,500 - 4,000
C. Double body, Louis XVI, glazed on the back with multicoloured paste-set bezels. D. White enamel with Roman numerals and outer Arabic minute ring. Rose-diamond set Louis XVI hands. M. Hinged gilt brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, the skeletonized back plate applied with a fine pierced multicoloured paste set decoration with a small painted enamel portrait of a lady. Signed on the dial. In very good condition. Diam. 37 mm.
Notes
Fine and unusual example of this type of skeleton
watches normally set with white stones or
marcassites.