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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 22, 1995

LOT 563

Not signed, Swiss, circa 1840. Fine 18 ct. and enamel ultra thin, hall hunting cased "Bagnolet" watch with eccentric dial.

CHF 5,500 - 6,000

USD 4,500 - 5,000

C.Three body, entirely engraved with foliage decoration, enamel champlevé flowers above the dial aperture and white and blue leaves on the back. D. Small white eccentric with Roman numerals. Blued steel Breguet hands. The gilt dial plate engraved with a floral decoration and pierced with a circular aperture for the barrel. M. 14 ' /2 gilt brass, inverted Bagnolet calibre, eight jewels, the wheel train sunk beneath the dial, including the cylinder escapement, the plain brass three-arm balance and the flat balance spring, sunk in the single plate, entirely engraved with a floral and foliage decoration and technical details. In very good condition. Diam. 40 mm.


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Similar watches are illustrated by E. Jaquet and A. Chapuis in La Montre Suisse, plates 106 and 107.