A PIERRE ROMILLY GOLD, ENAMEL AND GEM SET QUARTER REPEATING VERGE POCKET WATCH

Description: A PIERRE ROMILLY GOLD, ENAMEL AND GEM SET QUARTER REPEATING VERGE POCKET WATCH
With gilt fusee movement, three arm balance, eccentric winding hole. The movement signed 'Romilly A. PARIS 1344 8/67'. White Roman numeral dial with Arabic numeral chapter ring signed Romilly, scroll diamond set hands. The case decorated profusely with enamelled, engraved and chased decoration, diamond set bezel, diamond thumb piece and pendant and mounts. The inner case signed 'ROMILLY' on the side. The case back with an oval enamelled portrait of a young woman signed D. PETITOT.
Paris, circa 1780.
Diameter: 40mm

PROVENANCE:
Sotheby's, Geneva, 12th May 1988, Lot 71
The Collection of Dr Trevor Hyde, Sydney, acquired from the above

Condition:

Condition: Two stones missing from the bezel, one from the minute hand, otherwise in good condition as catalogued, running and chiming but not tested for time keeping.

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