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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 18, 1998

LOT 300

Hry. Motel, Hger de la Marine Royale No. 345, sold to the Depot de la Marine on 21 April 1846. Fine silver watch with dead independent seconds train.

CHF 3,000 - 3,500

C. Three body, "forme quatre baguettes", engineturned with reeded band and gold plated rims, the back engraved: "Depot de la Marine - No. 345 " Hinged gilt-brass cuvette. D. White enamel with Roman numerals. Gold Breguet hands. M. 21"', gilt brass, bar caliber, double train with free standing barrels, cylinder escapement, plain gilt-brass threearm balance, flat balance spring with regulator. Dead independent second train of Pouzait type with flirt on the escape wheel pinion and bolt in the band. Signed on the case and cuvette. Diam. 56 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 7

Oxidized
Movement: *4

Fair

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 18-51

Spotted

Partially reprinted

Notes

This watch is recorded in the Archives of Motel published by J.C. Sabrier in La Longitude en MVler 4 l'Heatre de Louis Berthoud et Henri Motel, Antiquorum Editions, Geneve 1993, p. 659.