| A mid 18th Century Dutch verge with calendar champleve sun and moon dial in silver pair cases. Full plate fire gilt movement with square baluster pillars. Pierced and engraved bridge cock, pierced and engraved foot and plate for the silver regulator disc. Fusee and chain with worm and wheel
barrel setup between the plates. Plain three arm gilt balance, blue steel spiral hairspring. Silver champleve dial, a chased and engraved representation of Father time in unusually deep relief, rectangular aperture showing the gilt calendar disc, blue steel poker hand. Arabic numerals for the minutes, the hours indicated by a blue steel disc which rotates once every 24 hours. This is viewed through a semi-circular aperture and is inset with a gold engraved sun on one
half and on the other a silver moon and stars. At the edge of the semi-circle the hours are marked from six through twelve and back to six in Roman numerals. As the sun disappears at the right of the aperture the moon appears at the left. Fitted in contemporary silver pair cases, the inner a little bruised, silver pendant and bow. Plain silver outer case repaired with lead.
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