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Hong Kong, Jun 08, 2008

LOT 59

Ecole d'Horlogerie Max Junod, Technicum Cantonal, Bienne, No. 181. Made circa 1910. Fine, Ecole d'Horlogerie, damascened silver and gold, keyless pocket watch with 24-hour dial. To be sold without reserve

C. Four-body, ?demi-bassine?, damascened bezel decorated with a repeated pattern, the damascened back with leaf stripes and repeat-pattern border, the center inlaid with a gold lion rampant and foliate cartouche with engraved initials ?MJ?. Hinged silver cuvette. D. White enamel, three-piece, painted black Arabic numerals, outer minute divisions, inner red 24-hour numerals, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel pear and double-feuille hands. M. 41 mm., 18???, frosted gilt, 19 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with gold temperature adjustment screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 53 mm.