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Grand Havana Room, New York, Mar 13, 2002

LOT 137

Robert et Courvoisier, Swiss, No. 19285, circa 1820. Fine, silver hunting-cased watch with day, date and painted enamel dial.

C. two-body, polished, spring-loaded front cover, gilt brass hinged dust-cap. D. white enamel, eccentric Breguet hour chapter set above 6 o?clock, outer minute divisions, day and date subsidiary dials at 10 and 2 o?clock respec-tively, the top with painted allegorical figure of a lady in neoclassical dress holding a dish in her left hand, wind-ing aperture in the hour chapter. ?Breguet? gold hands. M. 46.2 mm (20'''), hinged gilt full-plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, plain brass balance with flat balance spring, continental cock with dia-mond endstone. Dial, movement and dust cap signed. Diam. 57 mm.