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DUBOIS ET FILS | A GOLD OPEN-FACED QUARTER REPEATING CLOCK WATCH CIRCA 1800
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DUBOIS ET FILS
A GOLD OPEN-FACED QUARTER REPEATING CLOCK WATCH
CIRCA 1800
• Movement: gilded, virgule escapement, plain three-arm balance, levers for strike/silent and grande/petite sonnerie beneath bezel, repeating on two gongs, signed Du Bois et Fils
• Dial: white enamel, Arabic numerals, blued steel hands
• Case: gold, fluted band, pull repeat button in the pendant, gilt-metal cuvette, case numbered 360
Accompanied by an associated Desoutter retailer's presentation case
diameter 56mm
The Sir David Salomons Collection
Vera Bryce Salomons
L.A. Mayer Memorial Institute, Jerusalem, inventory no. WA 36-70
George Daniels & Ohannes Markarian, Watches and Clocks in the Sir David Salomons Collection, 1980, p. 131, fig. 76
Unusually the repeating work is activated by pulling rather than pushing the pendant.