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Index No. A8628 Rare Miniature Gold and Enamel Quarter Repeater
A very small rare late 18th Century English quarter repeating verge in gold and enamel pair cases.  Full plate fire gilt movement, pierced and engraved cock, silver regulator disc. Fusee and chain with worm and wheel barrel setup between the plates. Plain three arm gilt balance, blue steel spiral hairspring. Push pendant quarter repeating on a bell in the back of the case.  White enamel dial with Roman and Arabic numerals, later blue steel hands.  Miniature gold pair cases, the inner decoratively pierced and engraved, gold push pendant.  The pieced outer case with translucent dark blue champleve enamel and white enamel dots,  on the back an oval engraved with an urn.
SignedJno Sived   London
Circa 1770
Diameter 35 mm
Depth11.5 mm
A rare miniature English gold and enamel watch.  English makers produced few quarter repeaters of such small size.  In. Sived made a watch given to the Emperor of China by King George III.
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