David L. Gide/Dubois & Fils zugeschr./attr. to

A fine quarter repeating pocket watch with musical movement

Sold

estimated

4.000—8.000 €

Price realized

5.300 €

Our current catalogue

specific features

Case

18 K rose gold, reeded band, case maker punch mark "DLG", the back with engraving of a camp with tent, cannons and a globe.

Dial

Enamel.

Movement

Full plate movement, keywind, 2 barrels, 2 hammers, 2 gongs, musical disc movement with steel blades, mirror-polished steel parts, cylinder escapement, three-arm ring balance.

Case no.9024

Diam.57 mm

Circa1810

Ctry.Switzerland

Wt.138 g

During our 83rd auction in May 2011 we presented a pocket watch with an identical movement, which was signed Dubois & fils, Le Locle; it sold at the time for EUR 10,600.

Du Bois & Fils
In 1785 Philippe Du Bois and his sons founded the Du Bois & Fils 1785 watch company at the family seat in Le Locle. Du Bois had already established extensive business connections all over Europe and America as a cloth merchant, which made things much easier for the start-up watch company. During the 19th century Du Bois & Fils opened branches in Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and the United States and business boomed. Due to its proximity to the trade fairs the German Frankfurt branch was particularly important.
Source: www.dubois.de
David Gide (L.) worked in Geneva in the early 19th century and had a repuation as an excellent watchmaker. Gide specialized in the making of repeating and fantasy watches as well as watches with automaton and regularly used virgule and duplex escapements or escapements with a ruby cylinder.