4,600 CHF
Gregson à Paris, No. 11865, circa 1780. Very fine 18 ct. gold and enamel, quarter repeating, diamond-set watch. Double body, Louis XVI with rose-diamond set bezel, the back with a very fine diamond-set, paillonné sheaf of corn and flowers over a blue translucent enamel ground. White enamel with Arabic numerals (hair lines) Blued steel Breguet hands. 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. Repeating on a bell by depressing the pendant. Signed on the dial and back plate. In very good condition. Diam. 49 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1995-04-22
