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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 15, 2000

LOT 127

Gontard et Cie, à Paris, No. 1153, circa 1870.Fine and rare 18K gold, 15-day going watch with power reserve indication.

C. Three-body, 'forme quatre baguettes', engine-turned with reeded band. D. White enamel with Roman numerals and sunk subsidiary seconds. Blued-steel 'spade' hands. M. 19???, gilded brass, 8 jewels, special calibre with large mainspring barrel covering the entire back of the watch, winding indication sector calibrated for 15 days on the barrel cover driven directly from the pinion mounted on the winding arbor. Cylinder escapement, monometallic three-arm balance, flat balance spring.Signed on the dial and barrel cover.Diam. 49 mm.