| A late 19th Century Swiss cylinder in a gold and enamel open face case and fitted wooden box. Gilt split three quarter plate keyless movement with going barrel. Plain cock with polished steel regulator, plain three arm gilt balance with blue steel spiral hairspring. Polished steel cylinder, steel escape wheel. Small white enamel dial with gilt minute markings and blue Arabic numerals,
decorative gilt hands. Engraved 14 carat open face case, the back with champleve enamel decoration and a small shield bearing the monogram "FQ", gilt metal cuvette. In original fitted wooden box signed "V H Leuba Chaux de Fonds - Exposition Universelle Bruxelles 1897"
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