Important Watches, Wristwatches and C...

Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 24, 1999

LOT 126

Du Bois & Fils, Swiss, circa 1800. Fine silver watch with decorated dial, double calendar and subsidiary seconds.

C. Double body, Directoire, polished. D. White enamel with Breguet numerals, small symmetrical dial for days of the week and days of the month, subsidiary seconds flanked by two small figures of maidens in classical dress painted below branches of gilt foliage. Gold skeletonised half-moon hands. 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 back plate, initials painted on the dial. Diam. 55 mm.