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Hong Kong, Jun 08, 2001

LOT 500

Unsigned, Geneva, circa 1820.Very fine 18K gold and enamel, pearl-set musical quarter-repeating watch.

C. Four-body, ?Empire?, back cover with very well painted on enamel flowers against unusual zigzag engine turning, paillon fleur-de-lis border, band with green and red enamel flowers on an azure enamel ground, bezels, pendant and bow set with half-pearls, gilt brass cuvette. D. White enamel, Roman numerals, outer minute divisions with fifteen-minute Arabic markers, blued steel ?serpentine? hands.M. 52 mm, gilt brass, cylinder escapement, three-arm, plain brass balance, flat balance spring, sur plateau musical movement with 24 tuned teeth engaging pins on both sides of the disk, playing every hour or on demand, repeating on gongs by depressing the pendant.Diam. 60 mm.