Lot 654

L.G. Messy in Freyburg Fecit, 65 mm, 201 g, circa 1800
A decorative south German quarter repeating pocket watch with quarter hour/hour self strike
Case: Niello silver, signed gold dome, slide for silence, on reverse mystic human creature and floral ornaments. Dial: enamel, radial Roman hours and Arabic minutes, blued Louis XV hands. Movm.: brass full plate movement, gilt, 2 hammers / 2 gongs, 2 barrels, mirror-polished steel rack strike, three-arm steel ring balance, unusual fine adjusting device via kidney shaped adjusting scale.

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