Pocket watch · Open-face pocket watch

This late 18th-century gold open-face pocket watch is equipped with a verge movement, signed "Vauchez A PARIS" on both the white enamel dial and the movement plate. The case is constructed from gold and heavily decorated with translucent blue enamel over a guilloché ground, accented with a central green and white floral motif. The bezel features green enamel and white beads designed to mimic split pearls. The movement is a full-plate, fire-gilded calibre featuring a fusee, a pierced and engraved balance bridge with a steel coqueret, a three-arm gilt balance wheel with a blued steel hairspring, and a silver regulator dial with a blued steel hand. The dial displays Arabic hour numerals and unusually large minute markers, with decorative gold hands. Time-setting is performed directly from the dial.