| A late 18th Century French pearl set gold and enamel consular cased 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 blue steel indicator. Later
conversion to lever escapement. Winding through the signed white enamel dial, Arabic numerals, gold beetle and poker hands. Gold consular case, the bezels set with a row of split pearls. The back of fully restored polychrome enamel depicting a couple meeting in a garden, the background of dark blue translucent enamel over an engine turned ground. Small button in the rectangular gold and enamel pendant to open the case.
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