Important Watches, Wristwatches and C...

Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 18, 1998

LOT 353

David Definod, Cassel, circa 1720. Fine silver, pair-cased quarter repeating watch.

C. Double body outer, pierced and engraved with masks and inhabited foliage, the back centred by a view of a small village. Inner double body, "bassine" with split bezel, pierced and engraved with decoration matching that of the outer case. D. Silver champleve with Roman numerals and outer Arabic minutes ring. Blued-steel "poker and beetle" hands. M. Hinged gilt brass with Egyptian pillars, verge escapement, plain steel three-arm balance, flat balance spring, gilt-brass English style cock pierced and engraved with inhabited foliage. Repeating on a bell by depressing the pendant. Signed on the dial and the back plate. Diam. 57 mm.