A gold and diamond-set repeating watch with chatelaine | Circa 1760

Amy Dentan, Paris

A gold and diamond-set repeating watch with chatelaine

Circa 1760

Dial: white enamel, Roman numerals, outer Arabic minute track, diamond-set hands, signed Dentan, A Paris

Movement: gilt full plate, cylinder escapement, decoratively peirced and engraved balance bridge, round baluster pillars, chain and fusee, signed and numbered Amy Dentant, A Paris, 494

Case: gold and diamond-set and enamel, chased and engraved, case back with a couple and two children in a domestic interior in polychrome enamel, diamond-set plunge pendant and thumb piece, pulse piece to the bezel, with French Prestige marks and numbered 6127

Chatelaine: gold, silver gilt and diamond-set with enamel scenes of a young lady in a domestic interior playing the violin, a lady playing with a bird freed from a cage and musical trophies, chains decorated with rose-cut diamond set ribbons, one fitted with a jewelled watch key case in the shape of a ribbon, the other a jewelled fob seal, the carnelian matrix engraved: FIDE STAT AMOR

Dimensions: diameter 47 mm, length including chatelaine approximately 170 mm