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Property from an Important Italian Collection

Poudra A Paris

A Silver Open-Faced Calendar Watch With 24-Hour Dial, Moon-Phases, Sunrise And Sunset Circa 1790

Lot Closed

April 14, 09:48 AM GMT

Estimate

2,400 - 2,600 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Italian Collection

Poudra A Paris

A Silver Open-Faced Calendar Watch With 24-Hour Dial, Moon-Phases, Sunrise And Sunset

Circa 1790


Movement: gilded full plate movement, cylinder escapement, pierced and engraved balance bridge, signed and numbered Poudra A Paris, No. 1'809

Dial: white enamel, bottom section in black to indicate night time, Roman numerals, subsidiary dials for subsidiary seconds combined with moon-phases, day and date, fan-form aperture for sunrise and sunset

Case: silver, engine-turned, milled band, indistinct marks, numbered 5'228

diameter 59mm

A seemingly identical watch is illustrated in Tardy, Dictionnaire Des Horlogers Francais, p.532