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PICARD FRERES & F. RUSSER, GOLDEN OPENFACE DOUBLE DIAL TRIPLE CALENDAR POCKET WATCH

CIRCA: 1880 CASE MATERIAL: 18K gold DIAMETER: 51 mm DIAL: Two white enamel MOVEMENT: Manual FUNCTIONS: Time, subsidiary seconds, triple calendarThe present watch is consigned by a European collector and is preserved in a very good overall condition. The firm, created in the 1850’s at the Chaud de Fond in Switzerland, was awarded a Silver Medal at the Paris Universal Exhibition in 1878. The manufacture was especially renown in the American market which was increasingly affluent in this period.