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Noga Hilton, Geneva, Jun 14, 2003

LOT 200

Etienne Joseph Pequignot / Héliodore Humbert Droz, La Chaux-de-Fonds, circa 1820. Fine large musical watch playing every hour or on demand, with quarter-repeating.

C. Four-body, polished with reeded band, gold bolt at 7 to activate the music, at 8 lever for music/silence and at 1 o'clock, bolt for blocking the repeater, brass cuvette. D. Silver, eccentric, set at the top, radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions, engine-turned center. Blued steel Breguet hands. The lower part chased with a scene depicting a hunter bringing home a hare, his wife welcoming him with a drink on a tray. M. 53 mm., frosted gilt, cylinder escapement, three-arm gold balanceith flat balance spring, pinned disc sur plateau musical movement with 27 tuned teeth working on both sides of the disc.Signed on the dial Pequignot, cuvette signed by Humbert-Droz, case punched with Neuchâtel area gold guarantee mark.Diam. 61 mm.