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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 22, 1995
LOT 72
Frederich Guye & Frères à Paris, circa 1791. Fine and unusual silver watch with Revolutionary mottoes, made during the Constitutional Monarchy.
CHF 2,500 - 3,000
USD 2,000 - 2,500
Sold: CHF 4,600
C. Double body, "forme quatre baguettes", polished. D. White enamel with red Arabic numerals, outer black chapter with the motto: Vive le Roi et la Nation, the centre decorated with a sword, a rack and a crosier, symbols of "Clergy, Nobility and the Third Estate" with below the motto: L'union fait la force de l'Etat. Fine gold pierced bands. M. Hinged gilt brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee with chair, verge escapement with plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring, gilt brass continental cock pierced and engraved with a monogram, polished steel end-piece. Signed on the back plate. In very good condition. Diam. 53 mm.
