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Watch
    • Setting:
      Room XVIII
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Place:
      Switzerland
    • Date:
      ca. 1800
    • Materials:
      gold, enamel
    • Dimensions:
      diameter 57 mm
    • Inventory:
      3858
    • Watch (Inv. 3858)
    • Watch (Inv. 3858)

Watch with dead-beat seconds at the center, made in Switzerland for the English market. The case is composed of two glass-covered lunettes surrounded by mounted silver rosettes. The enamel dial, with Roman hour numerals and Arabic 15-minute numerals, carries the seconds hand at the center. The movement has no fusee and the escapement is of the anchor type, a design invented by the Genevan clockmaker Jean-Moisé Pouzait. The large balance is made of silver, with S-shaped arms and studded with rosettes.