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Spindle Pocket Watch "More à Paris"

48 mm / 18 kt gold / winding with key / circa 1780 / 60 g (without case) / running. Elaborately crafted spindle pocket watch with outer case. Enamel dial with Roman numerals for the hours and Arabic numerals for the minutes. Decorated with diamonds on the hour track. Hands set with diamonds. Spindle movement with finely crafted balance bridge. Chain and winding stem. Case set with diamonds around the crystal edge. Reverse side translucent enamel on a guilloché background, featuring a bicolor gold child in a gate entrance adorned with flowers. Bicolor gold border with cartouches containing green translucent enamel. Outer case of metal at the rim, edged with green leather. Non‑original key supplied. Provenance: Collection of Wilhelm Caspar Escher (1859‑1929), Zurich; inherited within the same family ownership, Switzerland.