An early Dutch silver oval verge watch, the gilt movement signed Reijnier Passchier A Amsterdam, with florally pierced and engraved pinned click, later blued steel ratchet and click (missing wheel), gut fusee with baluster pillars, florally engraved silver dial applied with gilt chapter ring, single gilt hand, case outside front cover engraved with a scene of Perseus and Andromeda within florally engraved border on hatched ground, the reverse with a strolling couple, the outside back cover engraved with the scene of Aeneas carrying his father Anchises from the burning city of Troy within similar border, the reverse with a seated couple playing music, gadrooned bezels, foliate engraved band, loose ring pendant, circa 1630; with restoration

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An early Dutch silver oval verge watch, the gilt movement signed Reijnier Passchier A Amsterdam, with florally pierced and engraved pinned click, later blued steel ratchet and click (missing wheel), gut fusee with baluster pillars, florally engraved silver dial applied with gilt chapter ring, single gilt hand, case outside front cover engraved with a scene of Perseus and Andromeda within florally engraved border on hatched ground, the reverse with a strolling couple, the outside back cover engraved with the scene of Aeneas carrying his father Anchises from the burning city of Troy within similar border, the reverse with a seated couple playing music, gadrooned bezels, foliate engraved band, loose ring pendant, circa 1630; with restoration
38mm. over pendant

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