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Hotel Noga Hilton, Geneva, Apr 24, 2004

LOT 547

Family Supper Le Paute, a Paris, No. 842, hallmarked 1760-61. Fine and rare 20K and painted on enamel quar-ter- repeating à toc watch.

C. Two-body, "Louis XV", back painted with a scenedepicting a family supper, bezels chased with wavy patternwith small white enamel cartouches simulating moss agate.D. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions,large five-minute Arabic markers, winding aperture at 2 o'clock. Diamond-set hands.M. 37 mm., hinged, frostedgilt full plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, brass balance with flat balance spring,continental cock, repeating on small gold block by depressing the pendant.Signed on the movement, case punched with date mark and fermier general's mark, Eloy Brichard master mark(used from 1756-1762).Diam. 46 mm.