Rare Antique Book Shape Sterling Silver Verge Fusee Deck Watch with Keys C.1805

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Rare Antique Book Shape Sterling Silver Verge Fusee Deck Watch with Keys C.1805:
$4325.00

Verge Fusee Book Shaped Fantasy Gent’s Deck Pocket Watch with Keys
Swiss; Man’s; Circa: 1805
Complications: Early verge.
CASE: The sterling silver, 50mm x 60mm, hunter case features a book shape, floral, barleycorn and geometric decorations.
DIAL: This silver dial displays Roman numerals and poker hands.
MOVT: This key-set movement with verge and fusee escapement is gilt with a full plate layout.
C 2 (The case is in perfect condition.)
D 2 (The dial is in perfect condition.)
M 2 (The movement is in perfect condition.)
R 9 (Rarity on a scale of #1 being very common to #10 being extremely rare.)
Experts Opinion: An excellent example of a fusee fantasy watch. Book shapes were very sought after. This is a spectacular example!
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Key-wind/Key-set Movements
The very first pocket watches up until the third quarter of the 19th century had key-wind and key-set movements. A watch key was necessary to wind the watch and to set the time. This was usually done by opening the case back and putting the key over the winding-arbor (which was set over the watch\'s winding-wheel, to wind the mainspring) or by putting the key onto the setting-arbor, which was connected with the minute-wheel and turned the hands. Some watches of this period had the setting-arbor at the front of the watch, so that removing the crystal and bezel was necessary to set the time.

This watch includes a reproduction of the correct size key, it is not the original.

Verge Fusee Escapement
Used in antique spring-powered mechanical watches and clocks, a fusee is a cone-shaped pulley with a helical groove around it, wound with a cord or chain which is attached to the mainspring barrel. Fusees were used from the 15th century to the early 20th century to improve timekeeping by equalizing the uneven pull of the mainspring as it ran down. The mainspring is coiled around a stationary axle (arbor), inside a cylindrical box, the barrel. The force of the spring turns the barrel.

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