SWITZERLAND, GENEVA, LAST QUARTER OF THE 18TH CENTURY, PATRY & CHAUDOIR Complication pocket watch. Main dial for seconds (minutes and quarters) featuring a polychrome enamel decoration of a little girl in a basket of flowers (at 12 o’clock), a house, and shrubs. Three small dials for the day of the month, the day of the week, and the hours and minutes. The latter is signed. Mechanical movement with cock, fusee, and chain. Plate signed “Patry & Chaudoir” and numbered 8065. Solid rose gold (750) case (modified). No hallmark. Exempt from hallmarking as the piece predates 1838 (Art. 524bis of the CGI, paragraph a). Crystal replaced with Plexiglas; needs to be reattached. Gross weight: 62.4 g. - Diameter: 47 mm. Scratches and some impact marks; lower opening lip missing; small chips on the dial (keyhole area, along the edge). PATRY & CHAUDOIR, a partnership active in Geneva between 1791 and 1795. Louis Frédéric Guillaume CHAUDOIR, a watch merchant from Berlin (Germany), specializing in complication watches, granted resident status in Geneva in 1789. Alexandre PATRY, master goldsmith and watchmaker, mentioned in Geneva during the second half of the 18th century.