Description

A late 18^th Century French verge in an unusual three colour gold and enamel consular case.  Full plate gilt fusee movement.  Finely pierced and engraved bridge cock with steel coqueret, plain three arm steel balance with blue steel spiral hairspring.  Silver regulator dial with blue steel indicator.  Pentagonal baluster pillars.  Winding through the signed white enamel dial with Roman and Arabic numerals, pierced gold hands, the minute hand shaped to clear the winding square.  Gold consular case covered with applied chased and engraved three colour gold floral decoration.  Around the bezel and edge of the back polychrome enamel foliate decoration.