| A fine late 17th Century English verge with silver champleve Sun and Moon dial in silver and tortoiseshell pair cases. Deep full plate fire gilt movement with decorative tulip pillars. Fusee and chain with worm and wheel barrel setup between the plates. Pierced and engraved cock with
pierced and engraved foot and plate for the silver regulator disc. Plain three arm steel balance. Signed silver champleve dial, Arabic numerals for the minutes, blue steel poker hand. The hours are indicated by a waxed champleve silver disc which rotates once every 24 hours. This is viewed through a semi-circular aperture and has engraved on one half the gilt sun and on the other the moon. 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. Plain silver inner case, split bezel, silver pendant and stirrup bow, circular shutter to the winding aperture. Silver and tortoiseshell outer case finely decorated with silver pique work, the front bezel unusually closing without the aid of a spring latch.
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