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Antique 18K Gold Enamel Verge Fusee Pocket Watch by Le Pine of Paris CA1745

Estimated price for orientation: 4 550 $

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Description
Movement: Mechanical: Hand-winding Closure: Open Face
Year of Manufacture: Pre-1920 Features: 12-hour Dial, Verge Fusee, Includes Key, Keywind/Keyset Movement
Brand: Le Pine Country Made: France


18K Verge Multi-Gold Pocket Watch by Le Pine of Paris
France; Paris; Unisex; Circa: 1745
Complications: Time only with early verge.
CASE: The 18K yellow-gold multi-color 40mm swing-out case has enamel decorations and a portrait of a girl with flowers and holding a rabbit.  This case is in very good condition.
DIAL: This white porcelain dial features Roman numerals and filigree hands.  This dial is in very good condition, two hairlines.
MOVT: The keywind/key-set verge fusee escapement gilt movement has a ¾-plate layout and is signed. This movement is in very good condition.  Key-wind/Key-set Movements -
The very first pocket watches up until the third quarter of the 19th century had key-wind and key-set movements.  A watch key was necessary to wind the watch and to set the time.  This was usually done by opening the case back and putting the key over the winding-arbor (which was set over the watch's winding-wheel, to wind the mainspring) or by putting the key onto the setting-arbor, which was connected with the minute-wheel and turned the hands.  Some watches of this period had the setting-arbor at the front of the watch, so that removing the crystal and bezel was necessary to set the time.  This watch includes a reproduction of the correct size key, it is not the original. Verge Fusee Escapement
Used in antique spring-powered mechanical watches and clocks, a fusee is a cone-shaped pulley with a helical groove around it, wound with a cord or chain which is attached to the mainspring barrel. Fusees were used from the 15th century to the early 20th century to improve timekeeping by equalizing the uneven pull of the mainspring as it ran down. The mainspring is coiled around a stationary axle (arbor), inside a cylindrical box, the barrel. The force of the spring turns the barrel.

RARITY: Rarity on a scale of #1 being very common to #10 being extremely rare, this watch rates an 8.5
Diamond pusher, green, yellow and rose-gold design. Enamel portrait of a small girl with flowers. Paste bezel on front of watch. All of this by Le Pine of Paris!  AI-174-37
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