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Hotel Richemond, Geneva, Oct 13, 2001

LOT 456

Bobillier A Besançon, circa 1700.Gilt metal center-wound single-hand "oignon" watch.

C. Two-body, "oignon", the back covered with leather, the band chiseled and engraved with foliage. D. Gilt metal with white enamel cartouches for the Roman numeral hour chapters, inner enamel quarter-hour ring, the center engraved with inhabited foliage. Blued steel "heart" hand. M. 47 mm, hinged, gilt full plate with Egyptian pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement with steel balance and short balance-spring, Louis XIV cock pierced and engraved with stylized foliage, Tompion type regulator wthout a pointer.Signed on the movement.Diam. 59 mm.