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The Ritz-carlton Hotel, Jun 06, 2004

LOT 478

Attributable to Piguet et Capt, No. 617, box by Georges Reymond, Geneva, circa 1810. Very fine and rare 18K gold and enamel oval musical snuffbox fitted with a watch. Accompanied by the original morocco fitted box.

C. Oval with three compartments, with center with hinged lid decorated with engine-turning and champlevé black enamel, the left with musical movement covered by semi-circular gold plate engraved with a lady playing the mandolin, the right with a watch, both with hinged lids engraved with sunburst rosette and geometrical champlevé pattern, base en suite. D. Small white enamel ring with Breguet numerals set to the left of semi-circular gold plate, to the right similar ring with subsidiary seconds, lower part with enameled regulating sector. Blued steel ?spearhead? hands. M. Semi-circular, 30 x 19 mm, going barrel, cylinder escapement, three-arm gilt balance with flat balance spring. Musical movement: semicircular, 29 x 19 mm, pinned barrel movement with a stack of 16 tuned vibrating blades of grasshopper shape, pinion governor in eccentric socket for tempo adjustment.Dim. 78 x 34 mm.