| A late 18th Century French quarter repeating verge in a three colour gold and enamel case with matching chatelaine. Full plate gilt fusee movement. Finely pierced and engraved bridge cock with steel coqueret, plain three arm steel balance with blue steel spiral hairspring. Silver regulator
dial with blue steel indicator. Push pendant quarter repeating on a bell in the case. Fully restored white enamel dial with Roman and Arabic numerals, stone set hands. Fine gold and enamel consular case. Chased and engraved applied three colour gold depicting musical instruments and birds, delicate piercing to allow the bell to sound clearly. Lateral slide in the engraved gilt edge to the dial to stop the bell being struck and a pulse piece in the front
bezel. Fine polychrome enamel cartouche shaped scene on the back of the watch depicting four adult figures in a garden. The matching two colour gold chatelaine decorated with similar garden scenes, the links each with a single child and the buckle showing a mother and baby. The chains for accessories with small polychrome enamel flowers each terminating with a shaped gold hinged clip with screw collar.
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