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ROSSEL & FILS, GENÈVE [Rossel & Fils，日內瓦] | A GOLD AND ENAMEL HALF-HUNTING CASED WATCH WITH TWIN POLYCHROME ENAMEL PAINTED CRESTS CIRCA 1880, NO. 90791 [黃金畫琺瑯懷錶飾琺瑯彩繪紋章一對，年份約1880，編號90791]
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June 16, 02:49 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 CHF
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ROSSEL & FILS, GENÈVE
[Rossel & Fils，日內瓦]
A GOLD AND ENAMEL HALF-HUNTING CASED WATCH WITH TWIN POLYCHROME ENAMEL PAINTED CRESTS
CIRCA 1880, NO. 90791
[黃金畫琺瑯懷錶飾琺瑯彩繪紋章一對，年份約1880，編號90791]
• Movement: frosted gilded, lever escapement, jewelled to the centre, bi-metallic compensation balance, signed Felipe Hecht Genève, no.99886
• Dial: white enamel, Roman numerals, outer Arabic minute ring, sunken subsidiary seconds
• Case: 18ct gold, the front cover with glazed aperture surrounded by enamel Roman numerals with inner minute ring, the back with polychrome enamel painted crests depicting a Griffin and a Phoenix surrounded by a Dragon all beneath a diamond-set enamel coronet, gold cuvette engraved with movement details and signed and numbered Rossel & Fils sucrs de J. F. Bautte & Cie., no. 90791, back cover numbered 90791, front cover numbered 91
diameter 36.5mm
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Felipe and his son Juan Hecht worked together in Geneva and together bought the firm Rossel-Bautte in 1897. In 1906, after Juan had become sole owner of the firm following the death of his father, he sold both the Bautte firm and the Hecht factory to Girard-Perregaux. See Kathleen Pritchard, Swiss Timepiece Makers 1775-1975, Vol. I, 1997, p. H-17.