| An 18th Century verge with silver champleve dial in repousse silver pair cases with decorative protective outer. Full plate fire gilt movement with square baluster pillars. Pierced and engraved bridge cock, pierced and engraved foot and plate for the silver regulator disc. Fusee and chain with worm and wheel
barrel setup between the plates. Plain three arm steel balance, blue steel spiral hairspring. Signed silver champleve dial, the centre pierced to reveal the a steel background. Arcaded minute ring. Roman and Arabic numerals, pierced gilt hands. Triple cased, the plain inner with faint English hallmarks, maker's mark "IT" in a rectangle. Outer silver repousse case depicting a musician playing a harp with three figures listening. The third protective outer covered in horn
underpainted to simulate tortoiseshell and decorated with silver pique pins.
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