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Animated double-face pocket watch; 22K yellow gold

“The Temptation of Eve”
22K yellow gold, double-faced open-face, key-winding, round-shaped, “Consular” pocket watch with animated scene.
The glass opening in the case-back reveals a gold scene, repoussé, chased and engraved, depicting “The Temptation of Eve”: Eve offering the apple to Adam in the Garden of Eden, in the terrestrial paradise, surrounded by several animals of Creation with the Tree of Knowledge behind them; the snake, incarnation of Evil, goes around the scene while the movement is running, making one revolution per hour (its support is hidden under the pierced and engraved border of the dust cover).
White enamel dial with radial Roman numerals for the hours and radial Arabic numerals for the minutes (with two apertures, one for the winding, the other for the regulation of the movement); blue steel “Beetle & Poker” hands.
Movement 17’’’, full plate, fire gilded brass, turned baluster pillars, fusee and chain, with worm and wheel barrel setup between the plates, verge escapement, monometallic three-arm balance (gilded brass) and blued steel flat hairspring, winged cock and regulator plate left plain, being neither pierced or engraved; a central stalk supports the scene and carries a wheel which is driven by another mounted on the contrate wheel arbour; gilded dust ring.

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