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Hong Kong, Jun 08, 2001

LOT 7

Village CelebrationD. Disheim-Goldschmidt Fils & Cie, Swiss, circa 1920.Fine and unusual automaton table timepiece painting.

C. Gilt bronze framed painting, featuring a village scene, the clock fitted on a church tower in the background over the automaton aperture. Rectangular molded green hardstone marble base. D. White painted with Roman numerals. Blued steel "cathedral" hands. M. 42.8 mm, brass three-quarter plate with going barrel, pin pallet Roskopf escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring.Signed on the movement, movement stamped also with Swiss patent No. 122387.Dim. 108 x 130 mm.