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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 02, 2000

LOT 216

Hubert Sarton à Liège, circa 1790.Fine 18K gold and enamel, quarter repeating, calendar watch.

C. Double body Directoire, the bezel with white champlevé and paillonné decoration, the back enamel panel with a fine allegory of Love, painted over a blue ground. D. White enamel with Arabic numerals and inner date ring. Gold skeletonised hands. M. Hinged gilt brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee with chain, cylinder escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring, gilt brass continental cock with ruby end-stone. Repeating on a bell by depressing the pendant. Gilt bras dust cap.Signed on the dial, back plate and dust cap.Diam. 54 mm.