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Hotel Richemond, Geneva, Apr 13, 2002

LOT 465

Edward Prior, London, No. 43802, made for the Islamic market, circa 1820. Fine 18K gold and enamel, set with diamond, quarter-repeating watch.

C. Outer: double body, glazed, with scalloped edge, the bezels with champlevé enamel decoration, diamond-set thumb piece. Middle: double body with scalloped edge, bezels with champlevé floral decoration, the back with a finely painted seaside landscape, a castle to the right, a vessel on the foreground. Inner: double body, bassine, back painted with bouquet of flowers over translucent scarlet ground over engine turning, the band pierced and engraved with foliage, diamond-set pendant. D. White enamel with radial Islamic numerals. Gold ?poker and beetle? hands. M. 28 mm., hinged gilt brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement, plain steel three-arm balance, flat balance spring, gilt brass English cock with ruby end-stone. Repeating on a bell by depressing the pendant. Signed on the dial and back plate. Diam. 50 mm.