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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 18, 1998

LOT 158

Jeremie Gregory, Royal Exchange (London), circa 1665. Fine silver pair-cased pre-balance spring watch.

C. Double body shark-skin covered outer. Double body inner "bassine " , polished with split bezel and loose-ring pendant. D. Silver with Roman numerals, the centre engraved with a scene depicting a shepherd and his sheep on the foreground, a village on the back. Blued-steel "arrow" single hand. M. Hinged gilt-brass full plate with early Egyptian pillars, fusee with gut line, short train, verge escapement, steel two-arm balance without balance spring, worm-and-wheel set-up with pierced bluedsteel brackets and silver regulator disc, silver florally pierced and engraved cock secured by a screw. Signed on the back plate. Diam. 50 mm.