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Small pocket watch, centre-seconds, minute-repeater, made for the Chinese market; 18K yellow gold, enamel and pearls

18K yellow gold, enamel and pearl-set, open face, keyless-winding, round-shaped, small pocket watch, made for the Chinese market, with centre-seconds and one horological complications:

· Minute-repeater by two hammers on two steel gongs (activated by the slide located on the case-band at 3 o’clock)

Redflinqué enamel (translucent enamel over guilloché engine-turning) case-back, with polychrome painting on enamel showing, in the centre, a young woman spinning her distaff with Cupid at her feet; bezels set with half-pearls.

Case-band engraved and red enamelled in champlevé with decoration en taille d’épargne of a Greek frieze.

Cuvette (dome) engraved in taille-douce (fine-cut), with the technical specifications.

White enamel dial with radial Roman numerals and gold “paillons” décor; blued steel “Spade” hands.

15’’’, gilded brass, going barrel, straight-line equilibrated lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensated balance and blued steel hairspring with terminal curve, polished steel index regulator; repeater work on the main plate, under the dial.

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