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Brand :
Simon Decharmes
Model :
Simon Decharmes autres horlogerie
Category :
Procket Watch
Diameter :
ofcase57 mm
Description :
• Movement: gilded full plate, the backplate with polychrome enamel painted portrait of a lady, verge escapement, fusee and chain, Egyptian pillars;• Dial: gilded champlevé dial, off-set chapter ring with black Roman numerals, half hour divisions between and to the ring beneath, outer Arabic minute ring, the centre and surround with scrolling foliage against a stippled ground, regulation between 7 and 8 o'clock, crescent shaped aperture beneath 6 o'clock to reveal the balance in the form of a pendulum, an engraved winged putto beneath, blued steel tulip and poker hands, signed De Charmes, London;• Cases: plain silver-gilt inner case, the back with winding aperture, inner case with maker's mark ML with cornet above • plain silver-gilt outer case, square hinge;diameter of outer case 57mm, inner case 48mm
