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New York, Park Lane Hotel, Dec 15, 1998

LOT 366

Vauchez a Paris, circa 1780. Fine and unusual double face pearl-set calendar watch.

C. Double body Louis XVI with glazed back, the matted bezels set with split-pearls. D. White enamel on the front face with Roman numerals and outer Arabic minute ring. Gold "poker and beetle" hands. White enamel on the back with calendar ring on border of the bezel and inner clays of the week marked in red. M. Hinged gilt brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring, the regulator on the gilt brass dial rim. Signed on the dial. Diam. 41 mm.