Repeating and Musical Watches

A fine late 18^th Century French quarter repeating cylinder with calendar in a gold and enamel consular case and matching chatelaine.  Full plate gilt fusee movement, signed and numbered gilt dust cover pierced for the endstone and regulator.  Finely pierced and engraved bridge cock, diamond endstone in a polished steel setting, plain three arm gilt balance with blue steel spiral hairspring.  Blued regulator dial with gold indicator.  Polished steel cylinder, large steel escape wheel, pivots with screwed in jewelling.  Push pendant dumb quarter repeating on blocks in the case.  Signed white enamel dial with central day of the month calendar in red Arabic numerals. Black Arabic numerals for the hours and quarter minutes, blue steel calendar hand, gold beetle and poker hands.  Raised brass edge to the dial signed “Gregson”.   Fine and unusual gold and enamel consular case with hinged bezel and back cover both set within a recess of the body of the case with no discernable sign of a hinge. Opening either of them reveals the hinges to be set close to the movement.  The small crescent of the bezels beyond the hinges moves below the recess in the body of the case. Two small recessed pins at three o’clock to open them independently. The bezels decorated with white and dark blue translucent champleve enamel.  Oval cartouche of a floral bouquet finely painted in polychrome enamel.  Border of dark blue translucent champleve enamel representing a ribbon tied in a bow at twelve.  Fine matching chatelaine, the gilt clip faced with gold and enamel floral scene.  Similarly decorated cartouche attached to the clip by a hinge.  The watch secured to this by a swivel sprung gold clip with threaded safety collar. Two small gold and enamel cartouches also hang from the clip, each with a matching double sided gold and enamel key, one lacking the shaft.  Recent black morocco covered fitted display box.  Lined in red velvet, the chatelaine visible through the glazed lid, easel stand.

A late 18^th 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 escapement, large brass escape wheel.  Push pendant dumb quarter repeating on two blocks in the case.  Winding through the unusual white enamel dial with Roman numerals at the quarters, Arabic numerals between them. Decorative pierced gold hands.  Fine gold consular case, translucent dark blue enamel over an engine turned ground.  The bezel and back both set with a single row of large split pearls.  Applied white metal decoration on the back set with diamonds. Gold push pendant and bow. Fine matching chatelaine, the gilt clip faced with gold and champleve enamel, an oval in the centre between two split pearls  One side supports the watch on two short chains, alternating square links decorated on both sides in gold and translucent dark blue enamel bordered in white.  These  terminate in a spring clip with threaded safety collar.   The centre with a gold and enamel bell with tassels of graduated pearls supported by a row of pearls.  The other side of the clip matching chain with two gold and enamel pearl set rectangular cartouches each set with a central split pearl.  The lower cartouche bordered by a row of split pearls supports the accessories three further matching chains.  The central chain with a matching gold and enamel oval key.  The outer chains with slightly small versions of the tassel at the centre of the clip.   Fitted in an unusually shaped red morocco covered case.