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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 02, 2000

LOT 313

Swiss, circa 1860.Fine and unusual small gilt brass and enamel table watch designed as the painting on a painter easel.

C. Gilt brass frame, the enamel painting featuring a seaside landscape, a village on the left, the dial on the church tower. The easel surmounted by cast bronze enamelled head of a devil. D. Small white enamel chapter ring with Arabic numerals. Blued steel hands. M. 14???, gilt brass, bar calibre with going barrel, cylinder escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring.Dim. 12,5 x 7 cm.