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Geneva, Mar 29, 2009

LOT 65

Enamel Flowers H(enry) Perier, London, No. 1122. The movement circa 1730. Fine, gilt metal, gold and enamel pair-cased pocket watch.

C. Outer: two-body, gilt metal, decorated on the bezel and back with engraving, the back set with a gold panel decorated with blue flowers and green foliage over an engraved ground. Inner: two-body, ?bassine? polished, deep back. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer dot minute divisions and outermost Arabic five-minute numerals. Blued steel beetle and poker hands. M. 34 mm., gilt brass full plate with square baluster pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement, plain three-arm brass balance, flat balance spring, silver regulator scale, pierced and engraved gilt brass cock. Movement signed. Diam. 50 mm.