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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Nov 14, 1993
LOT 81
Ageron à Paris, No. 241, circa 1775. Fine 20 carat gold and enamel dumb quarterrepeating watch.
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C. Double body, Louis XVi entirely engraved with wavy basket work pattern and decorated on the bezel and back with summer flowers in champleve enamel with translucent green foliage. Large rose diamond thumb pieces. D. White enamel, Roman hour and Arabic minute numerals, winding aperture at two o'clock, pierced and rose-diamond-set hands. M. Gilt brass full plate with turned pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement with plain three-arm polished steel balance, flat balance spring, silver regulator scale. Pierced gilt brass Continental cock with polished steel end-piece. Dumb quarter-repeating with two hammers on blocks the a toc piece in the edge of the engraved dial surround activated by depressing the pendant. Signed on the dial and movement. In good condition. Diam. 44 mm.
