$1,375
CONTINENTAL STERLING SILVER POCKET WATCH Continental, Sterling silver, open-face, key wound pocket watch with centrally mounted balance wheel and day-date calendar. Made circa 1800. To be sold without reserve Two-body, polished, case back with port hole to view the balance. Gilt brass with foliate engraving and 3 white enamel round dials: minutes and hours with painted Breguet numerals and outer minute divisions, the days of the week in French and the date. Black Breguet-type hands. Matte gilt, fusee and chain, verge escapement, centrally placed brass three arm balance wheel with blued steel balance spring mounted in a foliate pierced and chased circular carriage, regulation arm. Unsigned. Diam. 54 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2012-06-12
