Important Wristwatches, Watches & Clocks
Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 17, 1992
LOT 232
Vaucher à Paris, Swiss, circa 1780. Fine 18 ct. gold and enamel, paste-set quarter repeating watch;
CHF 7,000 - 9,000
Sold: CHF 3,680
C. Double body, Louis XVI, the paste-set bezel with white and green enamelled decoration, the back enamelled with a fine painted miniature en grisaille, depicting two Cupids, playing with a gnose and a dolphin, outer paste-set enamelled green leaves garland. D. White enamel with Roman numerals, outer Arabic minute ring the half hours marked by small inlaid pastes.Later blued steel hands. M. Giit brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement, plain brass three armed balance, gilt brass continental cock with polished steel end-piece. Repeating on a bell by depressing the pendant. Signed on the dial and the back plate. In good condition. Diam. 44 mm.
