• Movement: gilded full plate octagonal, verge escapement, decoratively pierced and floral engraved pinned-on balance cock and foot, plain flat steel balance, wheel and click set-up with further floral engraved cock and foot, fusee and gut line, round baluster pillars, the posts and arbors finished as flowerheads • Dial: silver with engraved townscape beside river, a figure in the foreground carrying a sack, chapter ring engraved with Roman numerals and half-hour divisions, gold and green enamel single hand in the form of a lizard, the silver dial set upon a gilded plate engraved to the edge with foliage and trophies of love • Case: silver and gilt-metal, hinged bi-metallic panel mounted above the movement, one side silver engraved with a village scene within love trophies and dated 1597, the other gilt-metal engraved with a coat of arms, the outside of the silver covers engraved with putti playing musical instruments and carrying emblems of love, the inside of the covers engraved with monograms surrounded by amatory emblems including flaming and pierced hearts, quiver of arrows, caduceus, cornucopia and an anchor, the silver band engraved with rabbits, hounds and a stag, foliate pendant, short boss-form terminal length including pendant 42.5mm, width 31mm
• Movement: gilded full plate octagonal, verge escapement, decoratively pierced and floral engraved pinned-on balance cock and foot, plain flat steel balance, wheel and click set-up with further floral engraved cock and foot, fusee and gut line, round baluster pillars, the posts and arbors finished as flowerheads • Dial: silver with engraved townscape beside river, a figure in the foreground carrying a sack, chapter ring engraved with Roman numerals and half-hour divisions, gold and green enamel single hand in the form of a lizard, the silver dial set upon a gilded plate engraved to the edge with foliage and trophies of love • Case: silver and gilt-metal, hinged bi-metallic panel mounted above the movement, one side silver engraved with a village scene within love trophies and dated 1597, the other gilt-metal engraved with a coat of arms, the outside of the silver covers engraved with putti playing musical instruments and carrying emblems of love, the inside of the covers engraved with monograms surrounded by amatory emblems including flaming and pierced hearts, quiver of arrows, caduceus, cornucopia and an anchor, the silver band engraved with rabbits, hounds and a stag, foliate pendant, short boss-form terminal length including pendant 42.5mm, width 31mm
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