Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Dec 02, 2003

LOT 196

Motherly LoveChevalier et Cuchet, Genève, circa 1790.Very fine and very rare, two-tone 18K gold, silver and painted on enamel, half-pearl-set quarter-repeating watch with virguleescapement and special repeating system on two bells incorporated within the movement.

C. two-body, "Directoire", back with painted on enamel scene with a mother and two children on a terrace against a blue sky, paillonborder, half pearl-set bezels. D. white enamel with Breguet numerals, outer minute ?star" divisions, five-minute Arabic markers, windingaperture at 2 o?clock. Gold ?Pierced? hands. M. 41 mm. ø, hinged, gilt brass of unusual construction with crescent-shaped back plate,fixed barrel outside with bells mounted on the barrel cover, virgule escapement, solid gold 3-arm balance, flat balance spring, unusualrepetition mechanism with raising lifters and reversed quarter cam. Dial signed.Diam. 51 mm