POUDRA A PARIS | A SILVER OPEN-FACED CALENDAR WATCH WITH 24-HOUR DIAL, MOON-PHASES, SUNRISE AND SUNSET, CIRCA 1790 NO. 1809

Property from an Important Italian Collection

POUDRA A PARIS

A SILVER OPEN-FACED CALENDAR WATCH WITH 24-HOUR DIAL, MOON-PHASES, SUNRISE AND SUNSET

CIRCA 1790 NO. 1809

Movement: gilded full plate movement, cylinder escapement, pierced and engraved balance bridge, signed and numbered Poudra A Paris, No. 1809

Dial: white enamel, bottom section in black to indicate night time, Roman numerals, subsidiary dials for subsidiary seconds combined with moon-phases, day and date, fan-form aperture for sunrise and sunset

Case: silver, engine-turned, milled band, indistinct marks, numbered 5228

diameter 59mm