Important Watches, Wristwatches and C...

Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 24, 1999

LOT 121

Robert et Courvoisier, No. 48178, circa 1800. Fine and unusual silver "bras en fair" watch.

C. Double body, Directoire, polished. D. White enamel with the applied gilt brass figure of a gladiator, pointing hours and minutes with his daggers on two Arabic sectors by depressing the pendant. M. Hinged gilt brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring, gilt brass continental cock with polished steel end-piece. Signed on the dial and the back plate. Diam. 59 mm.