Description

A late 18^th Century French verge in a diamond set gold and enamel case with matching chatelaine and case.  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 blue steel indicator.  Winding through the signed white enamel dial, Arabic numerals, gold beetle and poker hands.   Gold consular case finely decorated with white and pale blue champleve  enamel depicting foliage and birds.  In the centre of a navette shaped frame a vase highlighted by small diamonds.  Gold and enamel rectangular pendant.  Matching gold Macaroni chatelaine similarly decorated on both sides with champleve enamel and bordered by pearls, four suspended chains each with an accessory.  Contained in the original dumbbell shaped case of red morocco with decorative gilt tooling.