3,680 CHF
Du Bois & Fils au Locle, No. 3770, circa 1820. Fine and unusual 18K gold quarter repeating watch with special escapement. Four body, Empire, engine-turned with split reeded band. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with Roman numerals and outer minute ring. Blued steel "pear" hands. Notes This watch is very similar to those produced by Urban Jirgensen in Le Locle at the same period. The case and dial are almost identical, the signature on the cuvette is also however written in Gothic and the movement is constructed with the same ehauche; Jorgensen was using the double wheel duplex escapement and his watches were fitted with a Breguet type bimetallic compensation curb on the regulator index.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1997-10-18
