NAVETTE-SHAPED RING WATCH GOLD
Du Pont Geneve, Made circa 1800.
Very fine and extremely rare, 18K gold, enamel and rose-cut diamond-set ring watch with
visible balance.
Two-body, navette-shaped, the bezel decorated with green champlevé enamel and gold
stylized flower heads on a blue champlevé enamel ground, sliding cover opening to reveal
apertures for winding, hand-setting and regulation, the shank with foliate shoulders.
White enamel, navette-shaped, chapter ring in the lower half with Arabic numerals, outer
dot minute divisions and Arabic quarter-hour numerals, aperture for the visible rose-cut
diamond-set balance in the upper half with mirror-polished plate. Blued steel spear hands.
29.5 x 16 mm., navette-shaped, matte gilt, going barrel, cylinder escapement, blued steel
flat balance spring, rose-cut diamond-set balance visible through the dial.