Pocket watch: exceptionally large Geneva oignon, ca. 1700, Denis Dominice Geneva Ca. Ø64mm, ca. 168g, silver pair case, exceptional size, beautiful verge movement, circa 1700, magnificently decorated, signed on the rim, extremely high and steep fusee, very well preserved enamel dial, gilt hands, intact. This oignon is exceptionally large at 64mm in diameter. The watchmaker was already recorded in Geneva around 1685. The original dial was probably silver and was replaced by the 'modern' enamel dial probably around 1750.

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