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Rossel & Fils. An 18K gold half hunter case minute repeating keyless lever watch with box
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Rossel & Fils. An 18K gold half hunter case minute repeating keyless lever watch with box

SIGNED ROSSEL & FILS, SUCRS DE J.F. BAUTTE & CO., GENÈVE, NO. 93'709, CIRCA 1875

Closed14 May 2012

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Rossel & Fils. An 18K gold half hunter case minute repeating keyless lever watch with box
Signed Rossel & Fils, Sucrs de J.F. Bautte & Co., Genève, No. 93'709, circa 1875
Keyless jewelled lever movement, repeating on two hammers onto two gongs, gold cuvette, white enamel dial, Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds, engine-turned circular case, inlaid blue enamel Roman numerals to the glazed aperture in the front, a sheet of paper showing a schedule dated June 1884 to the inside back cover, repeating slide in the band, case numbered, cuvette signed and numbered
50 mm. diam.

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With Ancne Mon J.F. Bautte Rossel et Fils Genève original fitted wooden presentation box containing two spare crystals.

J. Rossel & Fils were the successors of the long-established watch manufacturer J. F. Bautte & Cie., founded in Geneva in 1790. Between 1860 and 1883, the firm signed "Successeurs to J.F. Bautte Genève". Manufacturers of fine watches and jewellery, J. Rossel & Fils were awarded First Class medals at the Great Exhibition in London in 1851 and in Paris in 1855.