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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 22, 1995
LOT 271
Dent, London, No. 60221 Swiss, made for the Spanish or the South American market, circa 1870. Fine 18 ct. gold hunting-cased pocket chronometer.
CHF 4,000 - 5,000
USD 3,300 - 4,000
Sold: CHF 4,600
C. Four body, massive, "bassine et filets" entirely engraved with a floral decoration. Gold cuvette with engine-turned border. D. Silver with Roman numerals and sunk subsidiary seconds, engineturned and applied with a cast gold floral decoration. Gold paste-set hands. M. 20"', bar caliber, nickel plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 15 jewels part in gold screwed settings, fusee with maintaining power, pivoted detent escapement, cut bimetallic balance, blued-steel helical balance spring with terminal curves. Signed on the cuvette. In very good condition. Diam. 51 mm.
