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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 18, 1998

LOT 328

Mery a Paris No. 163, circa 1800. Very fine and rare 18K gold, dumb quarter repeating watch with Robin escapement.

CHF 16,000 - 18,000

Sold: CHF 18,400

C. Double body by Tavernier (Master mark) No. 1989, engine-turned, of the type used by Breguet for his early perrlvetuell and garde-lentils. D. White enamel with Breguet numerals. Blued-steel Breguet hands with skeletonised tips. M. Hinged gilt-brass full plate with conical pillars, going barrel, del:ent-lever Robin escapement, plain gold three-arm balance, flat balance spring, polished-steel end-piece and regulator. Repeating on the edge of the case by depressing the pendant. Signed on the dial and the back plate. Diam. 56 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 1

As new
Movement: *4

Fair

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 22-24-51

Later original

Slightly chipped

Partially reprinted

Notes

Of very high quality, watches by Mery are very rare, the few known to exist are almost identical to those produced by Robert Robin towards the end of the 18th century. It was described in Horlogerie Ancie cne No. 23, Decembre 1978, page 45: Histoire de l'eehappenaent ti ancre - Les montses a ancre /fantaises de to premiere generation. (Photocopy supplied with the watch) Pupil to Robert Robin, Andre Mery, a Paris, was member in 1782 of the Masonic Lodgey; Saint Charles des Amis Reunis, in Paris.