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Index No. A5716 Gold and Enamel Swiss Cylinder
A late 18th Century Swiss cylinder in a gold and enamel case.  Slim full plate gilt movement with engraved resting barrel.  Engraved bridge cock with polished steel coqueret and regulator, plain three arm gilt balance with blue steel spiral hairspring.  Polished steel cylinder, steel escape wheel.  Wound through the signed white enamel dial, Arabic numerals, gilt border to the minute ring.  Decorative pierced gold hands.  Fine slim gold and enamel consular case.  Polychrome scene of a couple in a formal garden painted on translucent dark blue enamel over an engine turned ground. Gold and enamel front bezel opened by depressing a button in the pendant.
SignedFres & Ge Achard a Geneve
ConditionCirca 1780
CaseExcellent.
DialExcellent. Diameter 51 mm
MovementExcellent apart from the hinge crudely replaced cutting through the signature.
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