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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 15, 2000

LOT 271

Dumoret, 5 Rue de la Paix, Paris, circa 1880.Fine, demi-hunting, 18K gold diamond and garnet keyless pendant watch with matching fob, and original fitted box.

C. Four-body, "demi-bassine", the back with large cabochon garnet with applied gold initials pave set with rose-cut diamonds, gold hinged cuvette, the front cover with blue Roman numerals in champlevé enamel. Matching fob in gradually increasing links finished with a matching cabochon garnet, and applied gold crown set with pave rose-cut diamonds. D. White enamel, Roman numerals, outer Arabic minutes, snap-on fit, gold "spade" hands. M. 13???, bar, nickel, 'fausses côtes' decoration, cylinder esapement, monometallic balance, flat balance spring, frosted wolf-teeth winding wheels, pin-set.Signed on the cuvette.Diam. 35 mm.