Important Wristwatches, Watches & Clocks
Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 14, 1990
LOT 299
Duchène, Swiss, circa 1820.
CHF 5,000 - 6,000
Sold: CHF 9,200
Fine 18 ct gold quarter repeating half skeletonized watch. Three body massive "Empire" case with reeded band. GiIt brass cuvette. White enamel chapter ring with Arabic numerals. Blued steel Breguet hands. GiIt brass movement with the back plate slightly smaller than the skeletonized front plate, conical pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement with a plain brass three armed balance, a continental cock with a polished steel endpiece. Repeating on gongs by means of the depressing pendant, the polished steel striking work, set on the engraved skeletonized front plate, visible at the center of the dial. Signed on the cuvette. In very good condition. Diam. 54 mm.
