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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Nov 14, 1993

LOT 110

Gregson, Horloger du Roy à Paris, No. 2030, bearing the Paris hallmarks for 1774. Fine and elegant, 18 ct. gold and enamel watch with special caliber and escapement.

CHF 9,000 - 11,000

C. Double body of Lepine type with concealed hinge and fixed bezel with paillonne decoration over a blue champleve enamelled ground, the back of grey translucent enamel over engineturning, centred with a white opaque medaillon. Gilt brass glazed outer protecting case. Hinged gilt brass cuvette. D. White enamel with Arabic numerals. Gold "beetle and poker" hands. M. Gilt brass, Lepine caliber with free-standing barrel, virgule escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring. Signed on the dial and cuvette. In good condition. Diam. 50 mm.


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Described and illustrated in T. P. Camerer Cuss: The Camerer Cuss Book of Antique Watches, Antique Collector's Club, 1976, pp. 154 -155 and colour plate 7. This watch demonstrates most of the features introduced by Jean Antoine Lepine as early as 1770: the case with concealed hinges, the dial with Arabic numerals of the type used by Lepine, the caliber of the movement and even the virgule escapement. At the time of its construction, very few makers were producing watches of this type.