2,500 CHF
MORE’ DUMB QUARTER REPEATING WATCH Augustin More’ a Paris, No. 290. Made circa 1780. Fine, quarter-repeating à toc, 18K gold and enamel pocket watch. Two-body, bezel chased with a repeated guilloche pattern, the back with royal blue translucent guilloche enamel, central varicloured gold trophy, outer border to match the bezel. Gold with radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions, engine-turned center. Blued steel Breguet hands. 31 mm., gilt brass, full plate, cylinder escapement, three-arm brass balance, blued steel fl at balance spring, index regulator on a silvered plate, repeating à toc activated by depressing the pendant. Movement and dial plate signed. Diam. 38 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-11-13
