JEAN GASPARD GIROD | A SILVER PRE-BALANCE SPRING VERGE WATCH WITH CALENDAR CIRCA 1660

JEAN GASPARD GIROD

A SILVER PRE-BALANCE SPRING VERGE WATCH WITH CALENDAR

CIRCA 1660

• Movement: gilded full plate, verge escapement, decoratively pierced and engraved screwed-on balance cock, plain flat steel balance, worm and wheel set-up, fusee and gut line, baluster pillars, signed Jean Gaspard Girod

• Dial: gilded engraved with cherubs and scroll decoration, aperture to the top for months with the number of days in each, subsidiary dial to the right indicating the age and phase of the moon, left hand subsidiary for date, bottom dial for hours with Roman numerals and aperture for signs of the zodiac 

• Case: plain silver case, later associated silver and under-painted horn outer case with polychrome enamel scene depicting two classical figures within a landscape 

diameter 46mm