French varicoloured gold with short gold chain watch Circa 1770

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Kenmerk
TA2579
Diameter
41 mm
Estimate
€ 1.750 - 3.000
Price sold
€ 1.500

Gold verge with the portrait of a young lady
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A fine French, 18K varicoloured gold, painted on enamel and paste-set pocket watch with a gold key on a short gold chain, circa 1770. The back is decorated with a painted enamel portrait of a young lady beneath a paste-set coronet, applied varicoloured gold border of flowers and foliage. White enamel dial with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and large Arabic five-minute numerals, winding aperture at 2 o’clock. Fancy paste-set hands.
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A hinged gilt brass, full plate movement, fusee with chain, verge escapement with micrometric potence adjustment, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring, pierced and foliate chased continental type balance cock with polished steel end-piece, silver regulation dial. Dial and movement signed.
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Diameter: 41 mm
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Signed: Berthoud  Paris
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Missing pearl(s)/stone(s).

Signed: Berthoud Paris

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