| A late 18th Century gold Swiss watch with glazed polychrome enamel scene. Full plate gilt fusee movement. Finely pierced and engraved bridge cock with garnet endstone in a polished steel setting, plain three arm steel balance with blue steel spiral hairspring. Silver regulator dial with gilt
indicator. Converted from verge to English table roller lever escapement. Winding through the white enamel dial, Roman numerals, decorative pierced gilt hands. Unusual gold open face case, the edge decorated with a row of gold beads. The back with a finely painted polychrome enamel scene of a couple seated in a garden protected by a glass. Sprung front bezel opened by depressing a button in the gold pendant.
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