| A 19th Century French lever made for the Turkish market in a gold and enamel full hunter case. Keywind gilt bar movement with suspended going barrel. Plain cock with polished steel regulator, uncut bimetallic balance with spiral hairspring. Right angle club foot lever escapement. White enamel
dial with numerals, blue steel Breguet hands. Decoratively engraved and enamelled 18 carat full hunter case with ribbed middle. The front cover depicting a mosque on a lake in fully restored polychrome enamel viewed through engraved gold columns. The back similarly decorated but depicting a lake and a bridge over a river. Wound and set through the gold cuvette, maker's mark "BE" in an oval.
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