Swiss silver Renaissance style crucifix neck watch Circa 1880

Silver and polychrome enamel crucifix
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A large one handed neo Renaissance style neck watch in the shape of a crucifix, circa 1880. Silver/green and blue enamel/facetted glass case, silver/white and green enamel dial, cruciform brass full plate movement, verge escapement, gut/fusee, two arm iron balance. An unusually large and heavy pendant watch in the form of a crucifix with folding facetted glass parts. The dial has an applied silver chapter ring and is decorated with finely engraved partly green enamelled scrollwork and a white enamelled medallion showing the fall of man. The movement and the gilt balance staff are equally lavishly ornamented.
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Dimensions: 94 x 57 x 26 mm
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Weight: 174 g
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Signed: Etienne Bordier fecit   Genève
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A nearly identical watch is held in the Moscow Kremlin Museum