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SILVER. A GILT METAL AND ENAMEL PAIR-CASED ALARUM VERGE WATCH MADE FOR THE CHINESE MARKET
signed Joseph Silver, London, No. 465, circa 1780
with gilt full-plate movement, fusee and chain, verge escapement, with pierced English cock and diamond end-stone, with alarm on a bell, the white enamel dial with Roman and Arabic chapters, gold beetle and poker hands and alarm setting pointer, inner case pierced, engraved and scrolling foliage, the outer similarly pierced, the back inset with a polychrome enamel scene of a courting couple within paste-set frame, the bezel en suite, movement signed - 91 mm diam.
signed Joseph Silver, London, No. 465, circa 1780
with gilt full-plate movement, fusee and chain, verge escapement, with pierced English cock and diamond end-stone, with alarm on a bell, the white enamel dial with Roman and Arabic chapters, gold beetle and poker hands and alarm setting pointer, inner case pierced, engraved and scrolling foliage, the outer similarly pierced, the back inset with a polychrome enamel scene of a courting couple within paste-set frame, the bezel en suite, movement signed - 91 mm diam.