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Hong Kong, Jun 08, 2001

LOT 345

Baugrand, Rue de la Paix, 19, Paris, circa 1890.Very fine, 18K multicolored gold, keyless watch with matching gold fob.

C. Four-body, back cover with applied multicolored bouquet of flowers on circular, light engine-turned background, bezels decorated with a repeated rose and green gold pattern, gold hinged cuvette, trefoil bow.Fob consisting of three tapered hinged panels, each centered by applied multicolored gold flower bouquets on straight-line light engine-turned background, rose and green gold frames decorated with a repeated pattern.D. White enamel, blue Roman numerals encircled by black cartouches, outer minute dot divisions with five-minute Arabic red markers. Gold "Louis XVI" hands. M 24 mm (10 1/2'''), gilt brass, 10 jewels, cylinder escapement, three-arm gilt balance, flat balance spring, pin-set.Signed on the cuvette.Diam. 28 mm, length with the fob: 122 mm.