Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 11, 2012

LOT 356

DUTERTRE ? QUARTER REPEATING WATCH Dutertre a Paris. Made circa 1765. Fine, Louis XV, varicolored gold and paste-set quarter-repeating pocket watch. To be sold without reserve

CHF 4,000 - 6,000

USD 4,500 - 6,500 / EUR 3,500 - 5,000

C. Two-body, ?Louis XV?, back decorated with applied varicolored gold monogram within a paste-set border, outer border with varicolored urns on pedestals and a dog and fl ower basket, border and bezel chased and decorated with a lozenge and wheatear pattern, bezel also set with pastes. D. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track with fi ve-minute Arabic numerals, winding aperture at 2 o?clock. Elaborate paste-set hands. M. 33 mm, frosted gilt full-plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement with micrometric potence adjustment, brass balance with fl at balance spring, continental cock, repeating on a bell in the back of the case activated by depressing the pendant, à tact option via a pin protruding from the bezel at 8 o?clock. Movement signed. Diam. 42 mm.


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Grade: A

Good
Case: 3-11-76

Good

Slightly worn

ENAMEL AND VARIOUS TYPES OF DECORATION Restored hard enamel
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-77-01

Good

ENAMEL AND VARIOUS TYPES OF DECORATION Restored soft enamel

HANDS Original

Notes

(Lot 356) Jean-Baptiste (II) Dutertre (1715-1772) Came from a well-established family of watchmakers. His father, also named Jean-Baptiste, was one of the fi rst to experiment with double pendulum clocks. Jean-Baptiste (II) became a master in 1735 and took over his father?s workshop on Quai des Orfèvres. In 1742 presented to the Académie Royale des Sciences an interesting clock and equation watch. He had a nephew (1743 ? about 1778) of the same name who was also a watchmaker