Fine French gold quarter repeater with matching châtelaine Circa 1780

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Kenmerk
TA3336
Diameter
41 mm
Estimate
€ 11.000 - 20.000
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Gold, enamel and rose-cut diamond-set watch
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A very fine and rare French 18K gold, painted on enamel and rose-cut diamond-set watch, circa 1780. Quarter repeating watch with original matching gold and painted-on enamel châtelaine. Louis XVI case, the back finely painted on enamel with a couple in a landscape by an altar of love, outer chased leaf border highlighted with green enamel and set with rose-cut diamonds, band chased with a repeated pattern, rose-cut diamond-set bezel.
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Châtelaine with four panels of enamel on gold, gold spoon, the top panel painted en suite with the watch, the three smaller panels with painted on enamel panels of a woodland, doves and a dog by a basket of flowers, all within en suite frames and four chains, one for the key. White enamel dial, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and Arabic five-minute numerals and elaborate hands. A frosted gilt full-plate movement with cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, brass balance with flat balance spring, continental cock with polished steel endplate, repeating on a bell in the back of the case activated by depressing the pendant. Dial and movement signed chatelaine punched with master mark PG beneath a crown.
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Diameter: 41 mm
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Signed: Reboul  Paris

Signed: Reboul Paris

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