Ch.Hein.Haehnel, Fuerh: A mid 18th Century quarter repeating verge pocketwatch in chased and pierced repousse pair case, the white enamel dial with Roman numerals and Arabic five-minute divisions, the signed frosted gilt fusee movement repeating on a bell in the case by operating the pendant, the case signed M & F, with large silver key containing two miniatures

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Ch.Hein.Haehnel, Fuerh: A mid 18th Century quarter repeating verge pocketwatch in chased and pierced repousse pair case, the white enamel dial with Roman numerals and Arabic five-minute divisions, the signed frosted gilt fusee movement repeating on a bell in the case by operating the pendant, the case signed M & F, with large silver key containing two miniatures
46mm.diam.

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Christopher Heinrich Haehnel was born in 1695 in Zwickau and died in 1754. Examples of his work are in various German museums. See Juergen Abeler, Meister der Uhrmacherkunst, page 245

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