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HILAIRE BASSEREAU — PALAIS ROYAL, PARIS
Quarter-Repeating Po…
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HILAIRE BASSEREAU — PALAIS ROYAL, PARIS
Quarter-Repeating Po…
See original version (French)
Estimate €500 - €700
Voluntary lot
Description
HILAIRE BASSEREAU — PALAIS ROYAL, PARIS
Quarter-Repeating Pocket Watch.
Circa 1810.
Case: round silver case, fluted middle, bezel and hinged back, inner cup.
Dial: white enamel, painted Arabic numerals, painted railway track.
Hands: gilded openwork.
Glass: domed mineral glass.
Movement: mechanical, key-wound, special quadrature, quarter-hour repeater activated on demand by pressing the pendant, gilded and engraved mainplate and bridges, signed ‘Bassereau, Palais Royal’.
Set: none.
Diameter: 58 mm.
Gross weight: 130.00 g.
Hilaire Bassereau was a Parisian watchmaker renowned for his quarter-hour repeater watches in the very early 19th century, based at the Palais Royal — the epicentre of the Parisian luxury trade during the Empire and the Restoration.
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