A9142

Gold and Enamel Swiss Virgule

£3,750.00

Signed  Fres Barral a Geneve
Circa   1790
A small late 18th Century Swiss virgule in a gold and enamel case.
Diameter   35 mm         

Out of stock

Description

A small late 18th Century Swiss virgule in a gold and enamel case.  Keywind gilt bar movement with suspended going barrel.  Plain sector cock with polished steel regulator.  Plain three arm gilt balance with blue steel spiral hairspring.  Rare virgule escapement, brass escape wheel.  Engine turned gold dial with applied gold Arabic numerals, gilt hands.   Small gold and enamel case, the fully restored back depicting a couple in a formal garden either side of a blue bell  on which stands a gilt cupid.  Wound and set through the signed and numbered gilt metal cuvette.