Anon. An unusual 18K gold, enamel and amethyst-set keywound jump hour watch
Unsigned, circa 1840
With full plate gilt-finished movement, chain fusée, finely pierced and engraved balance cock, gold cuvette, the engine-turned two-tone silvered dial with an aperture for the jumping Arabic hours, an eccentric blank minute ring with central hand, subsidiary seconds, in entirely raised dot and floral decorated circular case, pendant and bow, the reverse centred by an octagonal painted polychrome enamel portrait of a lady, surrounded by amethysts in sizes, unsigned
43 mm. diam.
Anon. An unusual 18K gold, enamel and amethyst-set keywound jump hour watch
Unsigned, circa 1840
With full plate gilt-finished movement, chain fusée, finely pierced and engraved balance cock, gold cuvette, the engine-turned two-tone silvered dial with an aperture for the jumping Arabic hours, an eccentric blank minute ring with central hand, subsidiary seconds, in entirely raised dot and floral decorated circular case, pendant and bow, the reverse centred by an octagonal painted polychrome enamel portrait of a lady, surrounded by amethysts in sizes, unsigned
43 mm. diam.
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