Pocket watch: rarity, double-sided verge watch with enamel painting and rare calendar, ca. 1760 Ca. Ø40mm, ca. 49g, 18K gold, fantastic case quality with relief rim pink gold/green gold, glazed on both sides, verge escapement, face with enamel painting, decentral dial, gold hands, under the dial the regulator scale, on the back the patented calendar with date and day of the week (Lépine a Paris, Invenit et Fecit), steel hands, very good condition, very rare. The inventor of these very rare double-sided calendar watches was Lepine (https://www.cortrie.de/go/6RB). Due to the invisible plates, most of these watches are not signed.

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