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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 02, 2000

LOT 152

Swiss, made for the Chinese Market, circa 1900.Very fine 18K gold and enamel, hunting cased, pearl set, keyless, minute repeating watch.

C. Four-body, massive, ?bassine et filets?, split-pearl set bezels and bow, the cover with a painted scenes depicting a romantic young man playing the serenade for two maidens, seating in a garden. The backs with flowers on the foreground of a landscape. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with Roman numerals, outer Arabic minute ring, and sunk subsidiary seconds, paillonné divisions and central decoration. Gold ?Louis XV? hands. M. Glazed 14???, nickel plated, ?fausses côtes? decoration, 32 jeels, counterpoised straight line lever escapement with cut bimetallic balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring. Repeating on gongs with slide in the band.Diam. 41 mm.