| An early 18th Century calendar verge with silver champleve dial in a silver and tortoiseshell pair case. Deep full plate fire gilt movement with decorative pierced and engraved pillars. Fusee and chain with worm and wheel barrel setup between the plates. Pierced and engraved bridge cock,
plain gilt balance, pierced and engraved foot plate for the silver regulator disc. Signed silver champleve dial with Roman and Arabic numerals, arcaded minute ring. Pierced and engraved centre revealing a blue steel ground, rectangular date calendar aperture, fine gilt beetle and decorative poker hands. Plain silver inner case with a large centrally placed silver cover to the winding aperture. Gilt outer case with silver bezels covered in red
tortoiseshell, the back finely decorated with a geometric pattern of silver pique pins.
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