18K silver and enamel, pearl-set concealed dial form watch designed as a lyre with visible balance. Geneva, circa 1810.
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The Lyre Unsigned, Geneva, circa 1810. Very Fine 18K silver and enamel, pearl-set concealed dial form watch designed as a lyre with visible balance. C. Two-body, front with hinged spring-loaded lid to reveal the dial decorated with black champleve enamel with geometrical and leaf apttern, top with small pearl-set rosette centered with a diamond on yellow ground, borders with black champleve enamel with gold scrolling set with graduated pearls, yellow champleve enamel with green and gold flower stem at the bottom, graduated half-pearl set borders, aperture for the cock and balance encircled with split pearls, ogival agate base, gold pendant.. White enamel, Breguet numerals, outer minute divisionswith fifteen-minute Arabic markers, winding aperture between 1 and 2 o'clock. Gold "arrow" hands.M. 20 mm., hinged, gilt brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring, continental cock.Dim. Height 63 mm, width 29 mm.
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