A10027

Gold and Enamel Pear Form Watch

£2,600.00

Signed  Swiss
Circa   1810
An early 19th Century Swiss verge in a gold and enamel watch in the form of a pear.
Diameter   27 mm         

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Description

An early 19th Century Swiss verge in a gold and enamel watch in the form of a pear.  Full plate gilt fusee movement.  Finely pierced and engraved bridge cock with steel coqueret, plain three arm gilt balance with blue steel spiral hairspring.  Silver regulator dial with gilt indicator.  Winding through the white enamel dial, Arabic numerals, blue steel hands.  Attractive small gold and enamel case in the from of a pear.  Engraved gold foliate design with white and yellow flower within the green champleve enamel ground.  Bands of black champleve enamel where the halves of the case meet.  Gold engraved stalk at the top and an engraved dimple in the base.

An usual type of form watch in excellent overall condition