Decorative pocket watch; vari-colour gold and enamel

Vari-colour gold and enamel, open-face, key-winding, round-shaped, “Louis XVI” pocket watch.

Case-back engraved in taille-douce (fine-cut) and chiselled in vari-colour gold with a garland, and, in the centre, an oval-shaped polychrome painting on enamel showing an Allegory of Love (a scene in the manner of Watteau, Boucher or Fragonard, painters of the “fêtes galantes”).

White enamel dial, with radial Roman numerals; yellow gold “Louis XVI” hands.

15’’’, full plate, gilded brass, fusee and chain, verge escapement, monometallic balance (gilded brass) and blued steel flat hairspring, pierced and engraved gilded continental cock, polished steel end-piece, silver regulator disc.

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