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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 02, 2000

LOT 239

Rochat à Genève, No. 5054, circa 1850.Fine 18K gold and enamel cabriolet fob watch.

C. Three-body outer, the bezels with azure and white champlevé enamelled decoration, inner bezel engine-turned in a vermicelli pattern, the back panel centred with a fine Swiss riverside landscape, painted on enamel, outer engraved foliage over white enamel ground. Inner four-body, the bezels engine-turned in a vermicelli pattern, the back panel painted with summer flowers over a pink flinqué ground. Hinged gold cuvette engraved with technical details. The outer case is made in such a way the wach can revolve inside the case in order to be used either as an open face or as a hunting cased watch. D. White enamel with Roman numerals. Blued steel Breguet hands.M. 12 1/2???, gilt brass, bar calibre with going barrel, eight jewels, cylinder escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring with regulator.Signed on the cuvette.Diam. 38 mm.