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Hotel Richemond, Geneva, Apr 13, 2002

LOT 399

Roman Charity Les deux frères Huaut Les Jeunes, circa 1685 Very fine 20K gold painted on enamel watch.

C. Two-body, ?bassine? with deep back and inward edges, back finely painted on enamel depicting Roman Charity, band with four vignettes, each with a rural scene, inside painted with a house on a hill, a tree in the foreground. D. White enamel, Roman numerals, outer minute divisions with fifteen-minute Arabic markers, winding aperture at 4 o?clock. M. 34 mm., hinged, gilt brass full plate with unusual pierced pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, plain steel tree-arm balance, flat balance spring, continental cock. Case signed by the painters, movement signed by J. Descombes. Diam. 41 mm.