The Longitude at the Eve of the Third...
Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 23, 1999
L'Epine à Paris, circa 1780.Fine 18K gold and enamel, diamond set watch.
C. Double pody Louis XVI, the rose-cut diamond set bezel chased with decoration. The back chased with floral decoration, centred with a small painted enamel portrait of a lady within a rose-cut diamond-set frame suspended from an ribbon knot. D. White enamel with Roman numerals and outer Arabic minute ring. Gold Louis XV hands. M. Hinged gilt brass full plate with conical pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring. Gilt brass continental cockith polished steel end-piece.Signed on the dial and back plate.Diam. 40 mm.
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Grade: AA |
Very good |
Case: 4 - 6 |
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Movement: * 4 |
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Dial: 3 - 04 |