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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 15, 2000

LOT 25

Courvoisier Frères, La Chaux-de-Fonds, 'Modernista', Swiss, circa 1910.Interesting 18K gold digital jumping hour watch with retrograde minute hand.

CHF 1,000 - 1,200

USD 550 - 650

Sold: CHF 1,840

C. Four-body, 'demi-bassine', back cover engine-turned in barleycorn pattern, gold hinged cuvette, etched in Art Nouveau style. D. Gilded, center decorated in zigzag pattern, top with retrograde minute scale, aperture for the hours. M. 17???, rhodiumed, 'fausses côtes' decoration, straight-line lever escapement, bimetallic balance, flat balance spring, index regulator, crown-set.Signed on the cuvette, stamped with the maker?s mark inside back cover and on the dial.Diam. 50 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: A

Good

Case: 4 - 6
Movement: 4 - 6*
Dial: 4 - 5 - 6 - 01

Notes

The design was patented under Swiss patent No. 27838.