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Paillard Jr., Ste. Croix. A fine 18K engraved gold hunter cased two-train grande sonnerie clockwatch with diamond set dial and pendant
No. 11203, retailed by John Bennett, 65 Cheapside, London, c.1870.

12 June 2012, 13:00 EDT
Los Angeles

Sold for US$6,875 inc. premium

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Paillard Jr., Ste. Croix. A fine 18K engraved gold hunter cased two-train grande sonnerie clockwatch with diamond set dial and pendant

No. 11203, retailed by John Bennett, 65 Cheapside, London, c.1870.
Highly jeweled bridge pattern movement with two going barrels key wound separately, straight line lever escapement with gold capped bridges, unusual twin arrow counterpoise, bimetallic balance with numerous gold screws, blued spring with overcoil, striking hours and quarters and quarter repeating on two gongs, strike/silent switch and repeat release in band, gold cuvette, chased and engraved gold dial with roman chapters each with a rose cut diamond adjacent, finely pierced scroll hands, subsidiary seconds, within a chased gold case with diamond push piece in the pendant, accompanied by an associated contemporary leather box. 52 mm

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The top plate of the movement is signed by Charles August Paillard (1840 – 1895) who was born in La Chaux de Fonds, but spent part of his youth on the Caribbean island of Ste. Croix and then in Brazil. Returning to Geneva in 1862, he experimented with palladium to make non magnetic balance springs for which he received several patents. By 1882, Swiss chronometer makers had generally adopted his palladium alloy for their hairsprings.

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