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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 24, 1999

LOT 381

Du Chesne a Geneve, circa 1730 Fine silver pair cased watch with alarm.

C. Double body outer, bezel and back pierced and engraved with foliage. Inner double body, bassine with split bezel, the band pierced and engraved with inhabited foliage. D. White enamel chapter ring with Roman numerals and outer Arabic minute ring, inner brass revolving alarm setting disc. Blued steel hands. M. Hinged gilt brass full plated with Egyptian pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement, plain steel threearm balance, flat balance spring, gilt brass English style cock pierced and engraved with a mask and foliage. Alarm train with gilt brass fixed barrel and revolving arbor, striking on a bell. Signed on the back plate. Diam. 58 mm.