BREGUET
Decorative pocket watch; yellow gold and enamel

Yellow gold and enamel, open-face, key-winding, round-shaped, “Directoire” pocket watch.

Case-back with a scene showing an allegory of the dance painted en grisaille on a Royal blue flinqué enamel (translucent enamel over guilloché engine-turning) background in a neo-classical landscape by an unidentified Genevan workshop; bezels, pendant and bow with a décor of gold paillons.

White enamel dial with suspended Arabic numerals; yellow gold “Breguet” hands.

18’’’, full plate, gilded brass, fusee and chain, verge escapement, monometallic balance (probably gilded brass) and blued steel flat hairspring, pierced and engraved gilded continental cock.

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