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.


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