Blondel & Melly, à Genève
A gold and polychrome enamel painted lever watch made for the Ottoman marketCirca 1835, no. 14035
• Movement: unsigned frosted gilded bar, straight line lever escapement, flat three-arm balance, blued steel regulation arm with bi-metallic compensation curb, standing barrel, gold cuvette with aperture for winding and hand-setting, cuvette signed and numbered Blondel & Melly, à Genève, no. 14035 & engraved with movement details• Dial: white enamel dial, Turkish numerals, outer minute ring, gilt moon hands, secret signature beneath 12 o'clock• Case: gold, the back polychrome enamel painted with a bouquet of flowers and trophies of war, against a simulated shagreen ground of green enamel, the bezel similarly decorated, case back numbered 14035 and with maker's mark FM in oval cartouche
diameter 50.5mm
Blondel & Melly, à Genève
A gold and polychrome enamel painted lever watch made for the Ottoman marketCirca 1835, no. 14035
• Movement: unsigned frosted gilded bar, straight line lever escapement, flat three-arm balance, blued steel regulation arm with bi-metallic compensation curb, standing barrel, gold cuvette with aperture for winding and hand-setting, cuvette signed and numbered Blondel & Melly, à Genève, no. 14035 & engraved with movement details• Dial: white enamel dial, Turkish numerals, outer minute ring, gilt moon hands, secret signature beneath 12 o'clock• Case: gold, the back polychrome enamel painted with a bouquet of flowers and trophies of war, against a simulated shagreen ground of green enamel, the bezel similarly decorated, case back numbered 14035 and with maker's mark FM in oval cartouche
diameter 50.5mm
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