CHARLES OUDIN, PARIS | A FINE AND SMALL GOLD DOUBLE DIALLED MINUTE REPEATING SKELETONISED KEYLESS LEVER WATCH WITH CENTRE SECONDS, FULL CALENDAR AND MOON PHASESCIRCA 1890

• Movement: gilded, lever escapement, bi-metallic compensation balance, 26 jewels, two steel hammers repeating on coiled gongs• Dials: the front with glass dial, black cartouches painted to underside of the dial carrying gilded Roman numerals painted to the top, similarly decorated outer Arabic minute ring, gold Louis XV style hands, blued centre seconds, twin central banners signed Ch. Oudin, Paris • the back with glass dial, three black chapter rings painted to underside of dial with gilded calibrations painted to the top of the glass dial for day, date and month, above which an enamel painted night sky with clouds surmounted by an aperture for moon phases calibrated to the edge with moon age and signed Ch. Oudin, Paris, regulation arc set to the edge of the date ring, banner beneath day ring marked Breveté, two square panels to either side of the moon phases marked M & A respectively• Case: pink gold, double open-faced, plain polished bezels, repeating slide to the band, pusher for hand-set beside pendant, pushers for adjusting day, date, month and moon-phases beneath bezel

Antiquorum Hong Kong, 27 May 1985, lot 157
Antiquorum Geneva, The Sandberg Collection, 31 March - 1 April 2001, lot 98

Terence Camerer Cuss, Osvaldo Patrizzi, The Sandberg Watch Collection, 1998, pp. 218-219

Movement: running at time of cataloguing, day and date advancing. All calendar adjusters are operational. Repeating is operational but very sluggish and would benefit from servicing. Hands are adjusting smoothly. Dials: appear to be in good condition, some small scratches to calibrations. Case: light polishing, small marks and scuffs, scratch numbered 22859 beneath front bezel. Glasses to covers are slighly loose.
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