Silver verge with champlevé sun and moon dial Circa 1695

Early sun and moon verge
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A late English silver pair cased verge with silver champlevé sun and moon dial, circa 1695, deep full plate fire gilt movement, broad tulip pillars, fusee and chain with a ratchet and click wheel barrel set-up between the plates, pierced and engraved cock with unusual small pierced and engraved foot, plain steel balance, silver regulator disc.
Silver champlevé dial with Arabic numerals for the minutes and later gilt minute hand, the hours indicated by a blue steel 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, the border of the semi-circle marked for hours from six through twelve and back to six in Roman numerals, as the sun disappears at the right of the aperture the moon appears at the left.
Plain silver pair cases, silver ring pendant and bow.
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Diameter: 55 mm
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Depth: 18 mm
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Signed: Quare London