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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 15, 2000

LOT 391

Nicola Lamanda, Neapel (Napoli), circa 1760.Very fine, petite sonnerie striking, quarter repeating, silver pair-cased coach watch with alarm and calendar.

C. Outer: double-body, shagreen covered, with sound holes and silver rosette in the center. Inner: double-body, pierced and engraved with rosette in the center. D. White enamel, Roman numerals, outer Arabic minutes, inside the minute ring 31-day scale for days of the month, in the center 12-hour alarm ring, gold "Louis XV" hands.M. Hinged fire-gilded brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, 3 3/4 coil flat balance spring, fine continental gilded brass cock pierced and chased with leaf decoration. Pull wind repeating train, repeating, striking and alarm trains with gilded fixed barrels engraved with leaf decoration, striking on a bell, silence/striking lever.Signed on the back plate.Diam. inner case 107 mm.