Verge with silver champlevé sun and moon dial Circa 1695

Tortoiseshell verge with silver champlevé sun and moon dial
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An English tortoiseshell and pique pair cased verge pocket watch with silver champlevé sun and moon dial, circa 1695, full plate fire gilt movement with pillars, fusee and chain with worm and wheel barrel set-up between the plates, pierced and engraved winged cock with mask, pierced and engraved foot, plain steel balance, silver regulator disc.
Silver champlevé dial, the hours indicated by the disc which rotates once every 24 hours, viewed through a semi-circular aperture and has engraved on one half the gold sun and on the other the silver moon, at the edge of the semi-circle the hours are marked from six through twelve and back to six in Roman numerals, the lower half of the dial signed in an oval, decoratively chased and engraved.
Plain silver inner case, maker’s mark LB, outer case covered in red tortoiseshell decorated with silver pique and delicate silver wirework.
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Diameter: 54 mm
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Signed: Foster Exchange Alley
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Joseph Foster, Exchange Alley, apprenticed 1684, free of the Clockmakers Company 1691 – 1707.