Keys, Chains, Chatelaines, Accessories

A late 18th Century English verge in a gold and enamel consular case with matching chatelaine.  Full plate fire gilt fusee movement with round pillars.  Pierced and engraved cock, silver regulator disc. Plain three arm steel balance, blue steel spiral hairspring. Winding through the fully restored white enamel dial, Roman and Arabic numerals, gold beetle […]

A small late 18th Century verge by Lepine in a decorative two colour gold case and chatelaine.  Full plate gilt fusee movement.  Finely pierced and engraved bridge cock with polished steel coqueret, plain three arm gilt balance with blue steel spiral hairspring.  Silver regulator dial with blue steel indicator.  Signed white enamel dial with Roman […]

A late 18th Century Irish verge in a fine pearl and diamond set gold and enamel case with matching macaroni chatelaine.   Full plate fire gilt movement with fusee and chain.  Diamond endstone to the gilt cock pierced and engraved in a geometric design, silver regulator disc. Plain three arm steel balance, blue steel spiral […]

A late 18th Century English pedometer in a shagreen and gilt consular case.  Brass mechanism with star wheel and rocking bar actuated by a chain attached to a pulley. Sprung friction device compensating for large movements of the clip.  Each step taken by the wearer advances the hand by one division.  Signed white enamel dial […]

A late 18th Century quarter repeating Swiss virgule in a diamond and pearl set gold and enamel consular case with matching chatelaine.  Full plate gilt fusee movement.  Finely pierced and engraved bridge cock with garnet endstone, plain three arm gilt balance with blue steel spiral hairspring.  Silver regulator dial with blue steel indicator.  Rare virgule […]

An exceptionally rare late 18th Century Swiss centre seconds virgule with wolf’s teeth train wheels in a gold and enamel case and matching chatelaine.  Unusual calibre keywind gilt movement, suspended going barrel with blue and polished steel stopwork.  Plain gilt cocks for the balance and escape wheel with polished steel coquerets.  Plain three arm gilt […]

A late 18th Century French verge in a gold and enamel consular case with matching chatelaine.  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 signed white enamel dial with Roman and […]

A small early 19th Century Swiss watch with visible diamond set balance in a gold and enamel diamond set shield shaped case.  The unusual full plate cylinder movement following the form of the case with the balance visible on the front.  Very slender bar supporting the diamond endstone, four arm balance bearing four small diamonds. […]

An early 19th Century English duplex in a fine decorative gold consular case and matching chain.  Full plate fire gilt movement with gilt dust cover pierced to reveal the table of the cock and regulator disc.  Fusee and chain, Harrison’s maintaining power.  Pierced and engraved cock with large diamond endstone, silver regulator disc. Plain three […]

A long early 19th Century gold cased watch key with swivel top.  The shaft of the key turning freely within the engraved hexagonal gold body and ball with gilt jump ring.  Engraved repousse gold top supporting a gold oval mount with a bloodstone on one side and agate on the other.

A collection of seven watch keys.  The earliest an 18th Century gilt metal crank with one square for winding and setting the watch, the other for adjusting the mainspring barrel tension.  The other six.  Three early 19th Century watch keys ratchet keys, one an elegant long gold key with wire wound body set with a […]