VAUCHER FLEURIER PEARL & ENAMEL WATCH SILVER
Vaucher, Fleurier, case No. 5464. Made for the Chinese market, circa 1860.
Very fine, and very rare, silver painted on enamel and pearl-set center-seconds
pocket watch with Chinese duplex escapement. Accompanied by a box and key.
Three-body, Empire, reeded band, the back painted on enamel with a large
flower bouquet on a blue ground, pearl-set bezels, pendant and bow. Glazed gilt-
rimmed cover over the movement
White enamel, radial narrow Roman numerals, outer minute/seconds divisions
with fifteen-minute/ seconds Arabic numerals. Blued steel hands.
47 mm. steel, polished "Chinese", standing barrel, duplex escapement, monometallic
compensation balance, steel flat balance-spring, index regulator.