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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 02, 2000

LOT 94

Girard-Perregaux, Chaux-de-Fonds, No. 12255,circa 1870.Fine and unusual niello silver pocket chronometer.

C. Four-body, massive, ?bassine et filets?, the bezels with niello decoration in a Greek pattern, the back decorated in a chess board pattern. Hinged silver cuvette with engine-turned border. D. Gold engine-turned with Roman numerals and subsidiary seconds, the centre decorated with a royal coat of arms supported by two cherubs. Blued steel ?spade? hands. M. 19???, frosted and gilt three-quarter plate, the back plate engraved with an eagle with spread-out wings,15 jewels in screwed settings, pivoted detent escapement, two-arm compensated balance, blued steel helical balance spring with terminal curves and diamond end-stone.Signed on the back plate.Diam. 52 mm.