Rare Viennese Verge Fusee Enamel Silver Pear Shape Pocket Watch Antique C.1840s

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Rare Viennese Verge Fusee Enamel Silver Pear Shape Pocket Watch Antique C.1840s:
$8550.00

Rare Viennese Verge Fusee Silver Pear Shaped Fantasy Gents Pocket Watch of German Origin
Germany; Keller; Unisex; Circa 1840
Complications: Early Verge
CASE: The multi-color enamel over .800 silver, oversized (55mm x 33mm), swing-out case. Features a pear shape, enamel pear with love tryst scenes.
DIAL: This white porcelain dial displays Roman numerals and filigree hands.
MOVT: This key-set movement with verge/fusee escapement is gilt with a full plate layout and is signed.
C 2 (Case is in Perfect Condition)
D 3-57 (Dial is in Very Good Condition - slightly restored)
M 2 (Movement is in Perfect Condition)
R 8.5 (Rarity Grade- on a scale of #1 considered common to #10, which is an extremely rare item)
Expert’s Opinion: Fancy balance cock, impressive and perfect enamel Viennese painted scenic case. Form watches (pear shaped) are quite the rage! GL122013-44

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.

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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