Lot 397

A collection of two pocket watches
Paris, 42 mm, 56 g, circa 1780
A two-sided glazed and skeletonized verge pocket watch
Case: 18k rose gold, the bezels set with ornamental stones, engraved band. Dial: enamel. Movm.: skeletonized, firegilt, chain/fusee, three-arm steel balance.
The movement is exquisitely finished and hand-engraved; it is decorated with open-worked scrolls and studded with paste stones, which provides us with a striking view of the balance and the pinion of the verge escapement. The enamel dial is immaculate.

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