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A SWISS SILVER-GILT, ENAMEL AND ONYX MINUTE REPEATING EIGHT-DAY PENDULETTE DE VOYAGE

E. MATHEY-TISSOT & CO., NO. 12587 7365, CIRCA 1920

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A SWISS SILVER-GILT, ENAMEL AND ONYX MINUTE REPEATING EIGHT-DAY PENDULETTE DE VOYAGE
E. MATHEY-TISSOT & CO., No. 12587 7365, CIRCA 1920
CASE: with yellow guilloché within white borders, stone-set repeat button to top, on black onyx plinth DIAL: ivorine with black and green enamel hands MOVEMENT: single barrel with cut bi-metallic lever balance, jewelled to the third, repeating on two gongs via two hammers, back plate numbered '7365' and the inside rear door stamped 'MATHEY-TISSOT & CO./SWITZERLAND' '12587'; with winding key
3 in. (7.5 cm.) high

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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

The Mathey-Tissot firm at Les Ponts-de-Martel specialised in producing pendulette de voyage carriage clocks. The 1905 catalogue showing twenty-three examples, many with interchangeable parts and mostly made in silver. For a closely related timepiece by Mathey-Tissot, see Christie's London, 20 February 2008, lot 63 (£7,000).

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