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Dieudonné Kinable WATCH WITH ONE HOROLOGICAL COMPLICATION

Dieudonné Kinable WATCH WITH ONE HOROLOGICAL COMPLICATION 18K yellow gold, open-face, key-winding, round-shaped, pocket watch, hinged case-back, and one horological complication: - Quarter-repeater on two steel gongs (activated by depressing the pendant) Model: Year circa 1810 Caliber: 20''' gilded brass, with going barrel, cylinder escapement, gold balance and blued steel flat hairspring, index regulator with temperature compensating bimetallic curb and pare-chute Signed: cuvette Kinable, Dieudonné (died after 1815) Probably originating from northern Europe (Sweden or Flanders), this watchmaker is active, from the end of the reign of Louis XVI, in Paris, at the Palais Royal, No. 131. His most famous productions are his skeleton clocks and his lyre-shaped clocks. For the latter, he acquired, between 1795 and 1806, twenty-one Sèvres porcelain cases of different colours ("Sèvres beau bleu" or "bleu nouveau", "Sèvres beau turquoise", pink and green). For his dials, he works with the enamellers Joseph Coteau (1740-1801) and especially Etienne Gobin, so-called Dubuisson (1731-1815). We also know some watches, including an interesting pocket watch "subscription"-type with date (private collection, Italy). Under the Empire, some of his pieces are mentioned among the greatest collectors, including the Duchess of Fitz-James, Elisabeth ("Betsy") Alexandrine Le Vassor de La Touche de Longpré (1775-1816), and André Masséna (1758-1817), Prince of Essling and Duke of Rivoli, Marshal of the Empire (1804).