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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 02, 2000

LOT 210

Vaucher en la Cité à Paris, No. 506, circa 1780.Fine 18K gold and enamel diamond-set watch with special escapement.

CHF 3,500 - 4,000

C. Double body, Louis XVI with concealed hinge, the bezels with white and green champlevé enamelled decoration, the back panel of green flinqué enamel, centred with trophies, painted en grisaille over a white ground, within a rose-cut diamond set frame.D. White enamel with Breguet numerals. Gold hands. M. Very slim, hinged, gilt brass full plate with cylindrical pillars and going barrel, the back plate relieved for the barrel and the virgule escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring with rack-and-pinion regulator.Signed on the back plate.Diam. 34 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: A

Good
Case: 21

Period
Movement: * 4
Dial: 17 - 01

Notes

The case of this watch with concealed hinge is similar to that invented by Jean Antoine Lépine circa 1775 and the movement is similar to that used by Lépine at the same period for most of the watches he was producing with the double virgule and other experimental escapements.