Important Watches, Wristwatches and C...

Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 18, 1998

LOT 275

Courvoisier & Comp. (Geneve), No. 31021, circa 1810. Fine and elegant 18K gold, quarter repeating skeletonised watch.

C. Double body Directoire with reeded band and polished back. Hinged gilt-brass cuvette. D. White enamel chapter ring with Arabic numerals. Bluedsteel Breguet hands. M. 20"', gilt brass skeletonised with engraved bridges, the free standing barrel with gilt-brass cap engraved with foliage, cylinder escapement, plain steel three-arm balance, flat balance spring with regulator, polished-steel balance cock with ruby end-stone. Repeating on gongs by depressing the pendant with polished-steel repeating work on the reverse of the single plate. Signed on the dial. Diam. 58 mm.