| A late 18th Century French verge in a gilt and enamel form watch. Full plate gilt fusee movement. Finely pierced and engraved bridge cock with steel coqueret, plain three arm gilt balance with blue steel spiral hairspring. Silver regulator dial with gilt indicator. Round pillars. Fully restored signed white enamel
dial with Roman numerals, decorative pierced gold hands. Fine gilt and enamel case in the from of an urn set with pastes. The dial surrounded by a paste set bezel set within the square body decorated at the edges with translucent dark blue enamel. The foot and cover of the urn set with engraved glass panel insets. On the reverse of the case the surround is repeated but in the centre the dial is replaced by a polychrome enamel scene of a native figure holding a longbow. Paste
set bow and silver swags either side of the urn.
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