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A Swiss white metal and guilloché enamel quarter repeating travel timepiece, circa 1925
The rectangular case with C-scroll handle and on bun feet, decorated to front, sides and top with panels of blue enamel (small chips), with plain rear door, the plunge repeat to the top with cabochon button, with punched mark for Geneva Watch Co. to the base and number 10146, the lighter blue enamel dial with painted luminous Arabic chapters and inner concentric 24-hour ring (crack by 10), with retail signature E. Matthey Tissot & Co., luminous hands (losses to paint), the single barrel movement with bimetallic balance with lever escapement, repeating on two gongs via two hammers to the backplate inscribed NOCTURNE and numbered 7168 -- 3.1/8in. (8cm.) high; with front-opening gilt-tooled leather travel case
The rectangular case with C-scroll handle and on bun feet, decorated to front, sides and top with panels of blue enamel (small chips), with plain rear door, the plunge repeat to the top with cabochon button, with punched mark for Geneva Watch Co. to the base and number 10146, the lighter blue enamel dial with painted luminous Arabic chapters and inner concentric 24-hour ring (crack by 10), with retail signature E. Matthey Tissot & Co., luminous hands (losses to paint), the single barrel movement with bimetallic balance with lever escapement, repeating on two gongs via two hammers to the backplate inscribed NOCTURNE and numbered 7168 -- 3.1/8in. (8cm.) high; with front-opening gilt-tooled leather travel case