Description:
Onésime Molière 40mm 16J lever set (LS) ladies' pocket watch #12016, additional serial under the dial #40809, beautiful nickel bar-style movement with steel winding gears and a wide bar-style damascene pattern, mint single sunk (SS) porcelain enamel dial with Roman numerals, an outer black-marked minute register and a black-marked subsidiary seconds register, purple steel moon style hands.
Impressive yellow gold filled (YGF) fully engraved hunting case (HC), both sides have deep engine turning on one half of the cover behind a large floral pattern, smooth polish on the other half with a different floral design and a floral design down the center to the fancy monogram shield, blank on one side and a petaled flower design in the other, multi-stepped bezels, offset recessed hinges, a large heavy bow and an extra thick glass crystal, case is showing light normal wear with a small bit of smoothing to the edge of the engraving on the back, a few small scratches on both covers and a bit of wear on the bow, case is possibly an unmarked low karat gold however there are no markings and our tests were inconclusive so we are selling as gold filled, measures approx. 44mm in diameter x 64mm in length x 12mm thick. A very attractive, high quality watch from the late 1800s in excellent+ overall condition!
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