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Hotel Richemond, Geneva, Oct 13, 2001

LOT 511

L'Epine, a Paris (Swiss), circa 1780.Fine small 20K gold and enamel diamond-set pendant watch.

C. Two-body, "Louis XVI", the back cover centered by a finely painted on enamel portrait of a young lady within a green enamel rose-cut diamond frame set on a fine domed back decorated with fine flinqué, bezel diamond-set and engraved. D. White enamel, Roman numerals, outer minute dot divisions, outermost five-minute Arabic markers, winding aperture at 2 o'clock. Diamond-set hands. M. 24 mm, hinged, gilt full plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement plain brass balance wth flat balance-spring, conti-nental cock.Signed on the movement.Diam. 31 mm.