Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Du Rhône, Nov 12, 2006

LOT 152

?The Hunter?s Rest? Philippe Gros, a Paris, No. 200. The case with Paris hallmarks for 1760-61. Very fine and rare, 18K vari-colored gold, diamond-set, quarter-repeating à toc watch with à tact option. To be sold without reserve

C. Two-body, ?Louis XV?, the back decorated with an applied vari-colored gold scene depicting a hunter, his horse and a dog resting after a stag hunt, the whole against ?sunburst? engine-turning, bezels with applied multicolored floral pattern, diamond-set thumb piece, push-button at 8 o?clock for à tact option. D. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track with five-minute Arabic numerals. Diamond-set ?Louis XV? hands. M. 38 mm, hinged, frosted gilt full-plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, micrometric potence adjustment, steel balance with flat balance spring, pierced and chased foliate continental type balance cock, repeating on gold blocks in the case activated by depressing the pendant. Movement signed. Diam. 45 mm. Property of a Swiss Gentleman