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Geneva, Mar 29, 2009

LOT 323

The Cornflowers Dumb Quarter-Repeating Etienne Lenoir a Paris, No. 1501. Made circa 1750. Fine, 20K gold, enamel and rose-cut diamond-set, dumb quarter-repeating pocket watch. To be sold without reserve

CHF 7,000 - 9,000

USD 6,000 - 7,700 / EUR 4,700 - 6,000

Sold: CHF 3,360

C. Two-body, Louis XV, decorated on the bezel and back with raised blue cornflowers and green foliage over an engraved ground. Large rose diamond-set thumb pieces. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and outermost large Arabic five-minute numerals, winding aperture at two o' clock. Rose-cut diamond-set hands. M. 39 mm., gilt brass full plate with tapered turned pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement with micrometric potence adjustment, plain three-arm steel balance, flat balance spring, silver regulator scale, pierced gilt brass continental cock with polished steel end-piece, dumb quarter repeating with two hammers on blocks activated by depressing the pendant, silence piece in the edge of the engraved dial plate. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 47 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 3-30

Good

Alterations

Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 3-26-01

Good

Upgraded

HANDS Original