Miniature pendant-watch; 18K yellow gold, diamonds and bloodstone

18K yellow gold, diamond-set and bloodstone, open-face, key-winding, round-shaped, miniature pendant-watch; chiselled case-band; hinged cuvette (dome) and case-back.

Case-back mounted with a piece of hard stone. Bezels set with rose-cut diamonds. Cuvette (dome) engraved in taille-douce (fine-cut) with the mention in Old French “SANS MOURIR VARIER NE PUIS” (which can translate into “I can’t vary without dying”).

White enamel dial with black painted radial Roman numerals; yellow gold “Louis XV” hands.

Movement 9’’’ (Ø ~ 20.3 mm.), gilded brass, 10 jewels, going barrel, cylinder escapement, monometallic balance (gilded brass) and blued steel flat hairspring, polished steel index regulator (the motion-work mounted under a specific bridge).

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