Swiss gilt brass and enamel center seconds duplex Circa 1875

Gold duplex made for the Chinese market by Edouardo Juvet
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Fine, small, gilt brass and painted on enamel, pearl set dead center seconds pocket watch with Chinese duplex escapement, circa 1875. Fully chased and engraved movement.
Gilt Chinese caliber, duplex escapement, steel three arm balance with blued steel wings, blued steel balance spring, 8 jewels.
White enamel dial with Roman numerals. outer minute/seconds divisions with fifteen-minute/seconds Arabic markers. Blued steel hands.
Case with reeded band, back painted on enamel with a scene ofa young girl arranging a posy of flowers in a woodland landscape, pearl set bezels, pendant and bow. Gilt glazed cuvette hinged to the movement ring.

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Diameter: 38.5 mm
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Signed: Léo Juvet
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Leo Juvet Son of Edouard Juvet, q.v., whom he succeeded 1857-d.l891. Swiss but worked mainly in China – Shanghai, Tientsin, Saigon.