Important Watches, Wristwatches and C...

Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 18, 1997

LOT 592

Courvoisier & Comp. (Geneve), No. 31021, circa 1810. Fine and elegant 18K gold, quarter repeating skeletonised watch.

C. Double body Directoire with reed band and polished back. Hinged gilt brass cuvette. D. White enamel chapter ring with Arabic numerals. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. 20 "' , gilt brass skeletonised with engraved bridges, the free standing barrel with gilt brass cap engraved with foliage, cylinder escapement, plain steel three-arm balance, flat balance spring with regulator, polished steel balance cock with ruby end-stone. Repeating on gongs by depressing the pendant with polished steel repeating work on the reverse of the single plate. Signed on the dial and cuvette. Diam. 57 mm.